[New-Poetry] For the WEPD experiment: Houseman's Poem

[TheOldMole]

That knocks the underpinnings out of the whole sense of urgency, Don't 
worry, it's not just the 50 springs, you have winters too. And summers 
and falls too...what the heck. The whole point is that for most very 
young men, fifty years is an eternity -- and yet, only a very young man 
is capable of that special kind of wonder to say that 50 springs is 
little room.

John Jeffrey wrote:
> Right: he has little time to look at things in bloom; therefore he 
> must go out even when they're not in bloom and see the beauty of them 
> when they are hung with snow.  Just the way I've read it for my two 
> score years and ten.
>
> JohnJ
>
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> *From:* Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>
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> *Sent:* Monday, February 2, 2009 10:18:15 PM
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>> You could argue that it's a stretch, perhaps, but I don't think it's 
>> blatantly wrong.
> Agreed.
>
>> The poem doesn't have any hard evidence against it.
> But it does: And since because the speaker has little time "to look at 
> things in BLOOM," he is going into the woodlands to see the cherry 
> hung with snow.  If they're literally hung with snow, they won't be in 
> bloom.  To be reminded of blooms is not looking at them. 
>
> --Bob
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