What is the theme of the poem my cherry tree
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THEME OF THE POEM " MY CHERRY TREE "
The theme of this short, sweet nineteenth-century (1896) poem is most associated with seventeenth-century poetry. It is the theme of carpe diem, or "seize the day."
The narrator first talks about how lovely it is to see the cherry bough in bloom in spring. He then notes that he is twenty years old and can expect to live to seventy. This leaves him only fifty more opportunities to see the cherry trees in bloom. Since fifty years is not much time, he says that he will make a point of walking through the woods to see the cherry blossoms. As he puts it in the last stanza:
And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
The poem is saying we should live mindfully, taking note of the beauty around us and enjoying it will we can, for life is short. If we don't make it a priority to take in the simple pleasures of life, we will miss them.
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