The metaphor of flamed yard has been successfully driving the readers to see and feel how sad and suffer the widow is, even if she was in springtime.
b. Ninth to Fourteenth Line
The plumtree is white today With Masses of Flowers
Masses of Flowers Load the cherry branches
And color some bushes Yellow and some red
Williams told a story about a widow that had lived with her husband since thirty five years before. And here, through these lines, he tried to compare the
widow’s sorrow with the joy of nature in springitme and the way he used to do that is visual imagery.
The Ninth and the tenth lines denotes visual imagery. He wrote: The plumtree is white today,
with masses of flowers The white plumtree and flowers—beside they are inevitable symbols of
love, joy, and freshness—consist of the picture of plumtree that is white, and flowers in a great deal of number. This picture can only be seen. Again, white
is a kind of color and it concerned only with seeing, and the word “masses” denotes to the number of flower. Number of something can only be understood
and enjoyed by eyes—counting it with eyes. In the eleventh line, Williams repeated to show masses of flowers to the
readers. And in the twelveth one, “Load the cherry branches”, he—again— depicted the branches that full of cherry.” It is important to note that the word
“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.
