I thought this video was interesting, you are supposed to read the poem aloud while playing the video. It gives you a feeling of how the widow may have felt.
I found this poem to be sad, but also intriguing. I liked how the author uses repetition of flowers. To me, the white flowers symbolized the widow's husband, as if the flowers were his spirit. White is often a color associated with rebirth or spirits, and in this way, maybe when she says she would like to fall into the flowers, she is stating she would like to fall into her husband's arms once more. She is so depressed from his loss and in knowing that this can not be so, she feels she would rather die than go on without him. I also like the contrast between th4e beginning of the poem and the "cold fire" and the middle which talks about springtime, which is the end of cold. This may also be a symbol of the time which the woman is undergoing and how she has reached a point at which she needs to move on.
If you type the title of this poem into google.com , there are many other ideas of what these flowers stand for. Some of these ideas made more sense than others, but they were all interesting.
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