1- Spring time is poignant because it is a time of birth and new life not death, but the widow is experiencing grief not the joy of spring.
2-Spring time was formerly one of joy and happiness as she experienced the season of renewal.
3-The speaker’s son tells the speaker that he saw trees flowering with white flowers at the edge of the woods.
4- He wants his mother to realize that there is life beyond her former existence with his father.
5- The yard in the poem is the speaker’s present life with her husband and the meadow symbolizes a new life separate from her previous experiences with her husband.
6- The widow desires to stop feeling so much internal pain from her grief so that she can again enjoy life. She wants to stop hurting.
7-The two lines 2-3 represent the strength of her internal conflict and are vivid and the flatness in lines 13 and 14 reflect that she is experiencing no joy in the flowers and beauty of the cherry blossom.
8-The use of the word “masses” creates a visual of the beauty and plentitude of the flowering cherry blossoms that create an exquisite beauty that would normally fill one’s heart with joy. They are a symbol of abundance of new life which surrounds her. She is also feeling overwhelmed by her own grief and the word “masses” creates this as the second emotion.
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