“load” doesn’t mean that there is a movement in the picture—a condition to analyze this line as a kinesthetic imagery. The word “load” here tends to mean
that the branches are loaded with cherry than the branches are loading cherry. In the thirteenth line, “and color some bushes”, Williams denotes a picture
of colored bushes, not the activity of coloring. Hence, it is a visual imagery, because bushes in various kinds of color attract readers’ visual imagination.
In the fourteenth line, “yellow and some red”, color appear again and stressed that this poutry should be seen as a picture, not heard as a sound, or
witnessed as a movement. What Williams wanted to say in this poetry is that some people cannot
enjoy springtime. Springtime, despite its beauty, joy, and pleasure, is a regret and sadness for a widow—everywhere. The beautiful nature and weather
would just make them dream or blame the fate.
c. Twentieth to Twenty Fourth Line
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
This is another part of the poetry that tells the readers that the widow in this poetry wanted to forget the sadness and suffering she embraced but she
couldn’t. She, again, described the situation of springtime.
In the twenty first, twenty second, and twenty third lines, Williams shows a meadow. Meadow is a field covered in grass. This is a picture Williams tried
to make in the readers’ head. He said: That in the meadows
At the edge of the heavy woods, In the distance, he saw trees of white flowers
Williams set a picture into the readers mind: the picture of meadows, heavy wood and white flowers. He may had not just seen that nature when he
wrote these lines of poetry, but the view seems to be real and based on a true experience he underwent before.
Meadows has a relationship with green grass, and it is imagined visually. At the same time, when he continue to the next line, “at the edge of the heavy
woods”, he tried to show a place—it is known by the word “at” that denotes place of something. The place can only be seen and witnessed with eyes. It is
visual imagery. The twenty fourth line, “...he saw trees of white flowers” denotes the
visual imagery. It is a picture. Moreover Williams explicitly uses “saw”—past tense form of see. No doubt in it, he tried to make the readers imagine visually.
In short, the visual imagery in The Widow’s Lament in Springtime can be seen through the table below:
