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.

 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.

Ans – ‘The Widow’s Lament in Springtime,’ the speaker refers to her “son”. The poet uses the son and what he saw when he was in the woods, as a conduit for the speaker to bring the lines to a close. She describes how he told her about “white flowers” that are blooming in trees in the forest. This is an image that entrances and attracts her. It immediately makes her think that she’d “like / to go there”. Unlike most elegies, at least those written in the 1800s, this particular poem does not provide the reader with an uplifting ending. Rather, the speaker alludes to the pleasure she’d take at her own death.

She alludes to this death through the image of her “fall into those flowers”. She speaks directly and longingly for the ability to “sink into the marsh near them”. It is her desire to disappear from this world and hopefully end up in one that is closer to the man she loved for so long and lost.

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