1. Illustrates how all three of Housman's assigned poems deal with time and the passage of time. In The Loveliest of Trees, Housman uses a cherry tree to chronicle the passage of time. He begins the poem in spring, when the cherry tree is in bloom, “dressing in white for Easter time.” The image of white and the flowering tree give the reader a feeling of rejuvenation and rebirth, both feelings associated with spring. The next verse uses clever wordplay to describe the passing of decades and scores. The last verse lays out the bigger concept of a life in perspective. He writes that fifty springs are not enough to see things in bloom. He concludes with: "As for the woods, I will go and see the cherry trees hanging in the snow." Housman managed to manage time on two levels: micro and macro. He begins his poem in spring (birth) and ends in winter (death). At the same time it deals with time periods ranging from fifty to seventy years. It is through his careful wordplay that he is able to do this. The poem When I Was Twenty-One shows the author's recognition of his naivety as a young adult. He begins the poem by describing advice a man gave him when he was twenty-one. The man advises giving gifts and the like, but not your heart. He is telling the young man to freely give away his money and possessions, but not his emotions; the sage seems to think that a young man should not fall in love again. He says that giving one's heart away prematurely is "paid for with sighs aplenty and sold for infinite pain." The author concludes by saying that now that he is twenty-two he knows that what the wise man said is true. It is often said that hindsight is 20:20 and this poem is an example of that. For a Dyi athlete......center of paper......crib the skin and muscles that are draped over this skeleton. Yeats, simply put, manages to conjure up the image of a scarecrow in the reader's mind when referring to the elderly. “Salmon Falls”. By referring to the salmon, the fish that swims against the current to lay its eggs, Yeats manages to make his character go against the current. The river, like life and society, flows in one direction. Salmon and Yeats' character are attempting to go in the opposite direction. Is it difficult? YES. But impossible? No. “All simple complexities.” Yeats uses this term at the end of the first stanza of Byzantium. It is something of an oxymoron in the sense that simply means simple or simple, while complexity has its roots in the word complex, which means intricate or compound. It is simply about changing the complexities, so what Yeats is doing is downplaying what man considers difficult in life.