#10

In "The Widow's Lament in Springtime," imagery is the source of meaning for the poem. At the beginning, the speaker describes the flowers of a plum tree. From this point on, flowers convey the idea of the poem better than anything else. At first, the flowers seem to simply represent the colors of spring. The yellow and red of the trees are the bright colors that the speaker used to love in the springtime. At the end of the poem, the speaker describes trees of white flowers and wanting to fall into them. To me, the flowers symbolize a funeral with flowers surrounding the casket. Falling into the flowers would be like laying in a casket which makes me think that the speaker does in fact want to commit suicide.