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.

the word that best matches the meaning of the expression "went to the big ocean" is died.

the goldfish died, which is why the father looks at the children mournfully. the "big ocean" is the father's way of saying fish heaven. he could have just said that the goldfish died, but this way, the children imagine the fish in a bigger, better place instead of just picturing a dead fish.

explanation:

the purpose of the heading in the passage is to identify who is telling the story.

this excerpt is part of the book sugar changed the world (2010) written by marc aronson and marina budhos. as the book has been written by two people, the heading "marc" indicates that this specific excerpt is being narrated by aronson. in the fragment, marc describes his grandfather's story after hearing it from his cousin. however, there are other excerpts where budhos is the one that tells the story of her family.

aronson and budhos, who are husband and wife in real life, decided to write sugar changed the world when they found out how sugar, which had an important role in slavery and economy, changed their ancestors' lives.