The Widow's Lament in Springtime

This is my favorite poem because it is not hard to understand. It is clear that it is about a widow who is in grief. She is remembering her husband through her son and realizing how much she misses him. "Today my son told me that in the meadows, at the edge of the heavy woods in the distance, he saw trees of white flowers. I feel that I would like to go there and fall and fall into these flowers and sink into the marsh near them." There is a lot of symbolism towards the end of the poem. The son tells her that because she wants her to move on. I think that the trees of white flowers represent her husband. The distance between the son and the trees represent how far he is from his father. The widdow then goes on to talk about how she would like to go and sink into those flowers. She wants to her husband and sink into the place where he will always be. Also it is a juxtaposition when the widdow says "fall into the flowers" but also says "sink into a marsh". The falling into flowers sounds pleasant and peaceful but sinking into a marsh seems erie. She is saying that joining to join her husband would be both good and bad.