The Cherry Trees
The cherry trees bend over and are shedding
On the old road where all that passed are dead,
Their petals, strewing the grass as for a wedding
This early May morn when there is none to wed.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/248316
The cherry trees in this poem are personified and given human qualities such as "bend[ing] over" and "shedding." The trees represent beautiful and young life, and the bending over and shedding are symbols of growing old and the deteorating life of people as they age. The old road that is being passed is a symbol for the evanescent life people live, because by the time they are all prepared to blossom the prime of their life has passed. The falling petals might be seen as a sort of confeti celbrating that they have acheived something great, but when the blooms fall to the ground that is the death of the plant, so Thomas is saying a person should be celebrating their acheivement, however the death of early life has been reached as well. The early May morn where they have none to wed is a representation that they have no place for happiness left because they have missed their chance to have fun in life
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