"The Widow's Lament in Sprintime"

There were a few symbols in this poem. The poem was sad because the woman had lost her husband. The beauty of spring was lost to her after her husband passed away. Even though the season is springtime, she is not happy. "Sorrow is my own yard where the grass flames as it has flamed often before but no with he cold fire that closes round me this year." She is sad and her yard is constricting. Her son wants her to look forward because things will get better. He notices white flowers in the meadow. The meadow represents freedom. It is open space. At the end of the poem she says, "I feel that I would like to go there and fall into those flowers and sink into the marsh near them." The white flowers represent Heaven and the marsh is death. She wants to die to be with her husband in Heaven.