This poem is full of symbolic imagery. Williams describes a widow who has lost her husband recently. His images of the plumtree white with flowers are associated with that of her husband. Her husband’s death has left her sad and lonely. However, when the images of the white flowers again resurface, it is under the hope that the widow will again see her husband. Her son depicts the scene of trees of white flowers at the edge of the woods. The woods are used as a metaphor for the woman’s life and that at its end, she will arrive to be with her husband when she “sinks into the marsh” around the flowers. William’s use of symbolic imagery intertwines the two people through the description and representations of the white flowers of their lives. This imagery reveals a thematic message in the poem which implies that true love and friendships still exist even after death.
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