English Poetry Lecturer : Ms.

Christin By : Rindang Prasetyawati / 121012173

When I would muse in boyhood By A.E. Housman When I would muse in boyhood The wild green woods among, And nurse resolves and fancies Because the world was young, It was not foes to conquer, Nor sweethearts to be kind, But it was friends to die for That I would seek and find. I sought them and I found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save. They braced their belts around them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me. The Definitions of Poetry : 1. Says more and says it more intensely than does ordinary language It means about the context of the poem that uses diction and metaphor, so they make the arrangement of the words in the poem seems beautiful words when everybody read it. The example of metaphor is according to the poem above in line 4 stanza 1 which says, Because the world was young,. As we know that the adjective of young is used for organism characterizing. 2. Language is an instrument of persuasion All in all, Housman brings the persuasion through the language of the poem. It can be proven from the implicit meaning of the poem. He said about true friendship not sweetheart that can keep and love each other. 3. Language is to communicate information According to the poem in stanza 2 which Housman told or gave the information about how his friends died for him :
I sought them and I found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save. They braced their belts around them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.

English Poetry Lecturer : Ms. Christin By : Rindang Prasetyawati / 121012173

4. Brings us sense of life After reading the poem above, we will know the sense of life that Housman brings. He said about togetherness and humanity of their friends for him. It can be proven in stanza 2 too. 5. Brings us a perception of life It also can be proven in stanza 2 which the perception of life is as friends to love and keep each other, fight together. 6. Widens and sharpens our contact with existence It is in stanza 2 which it describes deeply how Housmans friends died for him. Of course, I think the tragedy happened when the war happened. 7. Concern with experience According to the poem, we can find the word I, me, they, and them which mean that the poet participates in the story. Besides that the context of the poem uses past form which means that the story happened in last time. All in all, I can conclude that the poem concerns with Housmans experience.

English Poetry Lecturer : Ms. Christin By : Rindang Prasetyawati / 121012173

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now By A.E. Housman ( 1859-1936 ) Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. 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. Illustration a. First stanza In my opinion, the first stanza means that there is a cherry tree in a forest which according to Housman it is the most beautiful tree than the others, especially when the snow covers it. b. Second stanza It means that Housman assumed that his life for 70 years. Now he is almost in 30 years old and he argued that his life is still for fifty years again. c. Third stanza I think that he has opinion that fifty years is only in a while, so it will be a satisfy time as beautiful as cherry tree with snow if he uses the time to do something well. There is no contrast in this poem

English Poetry Lecturer : Ms. Christin By : Rindang Prasetyawati / 121012173