Spring=Sorrow?

"But the grief in my heart
is stronger than they"
The Widow's Lament in Springtime

When the season of spring comes to mind, common thoughts are renewal, life, and happiness. This poem, therefore, is a paradox because spring is assocaited with grief instead. The fact that the two normally not connected words are put together stirs interest in the reader: they want to figure out how grief and sorrow connect. Soon, we are able to learn that before, spring was a wonderful, warm time for the widow. Now, however, her husband has died and spring creates "cold fire" and "forgetting". Even though the poem has a dark versus light theme, it leaves end with a hopeful note. The "white flowers" could symbolize renewal for the widow. White is a color that means fresh- perhaps all the widow needs is a fresh start with spring, to stop associating it with grief.