A whole greater meaning

"The Widow's Lament in the Springtime" is full of imagery representative of the tone and theme. The imagery in the description of the of her lawn and the flowers are mostly visual imagery in which the speaker creates a mental picture we can see. The theme of the poem is how she doesn't want to leave the memories of her husband, even when she has the choice of going to a place so she can forget (the marsh). As she uses this imagery on her lawn and flowers, it eventually represents how they symbolize her memories of her husband and even though they make her sad, she doesn't want to leave them because she feels it is equivalent to leaving her husband. These three lines strongly represent this idea, "some bushes yellow and some red but the grief in my heart is stronger than they for though thery were my joy..." So because of how the imagery is used, it helps establish the theme of the poem. Also, the tone of the poem can be determined because of this imagery. Since the imagery brings about the theme of not wanting to forget her husband, that only brings a tone of nostalgia.