Loveliest of Trees Death Quotes

Even though "Eastertide" makes us think of spring, rebirth, and all that good stuff, it also makes us think of Jesus' death and resurrection. The poem's first stanza, then, tells us right away that this poem is as much about rebirth as it is about death.

The speaker is still alive, and he's still young, but part of him has already died. He may live to be 70, but the first twenty years of his life are dead and gone, never to return.

The speaker is fixated on death. He's already talked about how the first 20 years of his life are dead and gone, and now he's defining the rest of his life in terms of when it will end (in 50 years).