The Widow's Lament in Springtime

The Imagery in this poem is one of constriction. You feel it in the words when the widow talks of her yard "closes round me this year". The description of the white flowers are not ones of joy but of how she remembers her husband and so these flowers are almost a burden to her to see.The reader also encounters the imagery of white flowers on trees "in the distance". But the tone of the widow's thoughts is that of she will possibly go there but probably not. When she says that she would like to "sink into the marsh near them." It made me think she wanted to die. When I think of marsh I think of a sad and lonely place. That is what i think the author wants the reader to picture.