Which lines from the poem express the view that life is too short and should be enjoyed while you can?

loveliest of trees
by a. e. housman

a. loveliest of trees, the cherry now
is hung with bloom along the bough,
and stands about the woodland ride
wearing white for eastertide.

b. now, of my three score years and ten,
twenty will not come again,
and take from seventy springs a score,
it only leaves me fifty more.

c. 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.

can be more then one

A. E. Housman in his poem “Loveliest of Trees” expresses the view that life is too short and should be enjoyed while one can. The lines which reflect this view are:

B. Now, of my three score years and ten,

Twenty will not come again,

And take from seventy springs a score,

It only leaves me fifty more.

C. 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 boy realizes that he has completed twenty years of his life and now only fifty years are left for him. He promises himself to gain all the pleasures of life until his time of death. He plans that he will visit the ‘woodlands’ and feel the beauty of nature with his aging.

Now, of my three score years and ten,

Twenty will not come again,

And take from seventy springs a score,

It only leaves me fifty more.

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.

dramatic irony occurs when the reader/audience knows more about a character's situation than the character does. the one main effect is that it gives the reader a sense of superiority, or detached superiority. the reader not only seemingly discovers what is revealed, but feels superior for doing so.