The poem takes place in April during the spring. Since spring is generally symbolic of new life and growth, it could be symbolic of moving on. While the narrator’s mother has died, her body will live on in the soil of the new spring. The reader is shown the contrast of blossoms against the green grass and burned ditches. He includes burnt ditches to emphasize the role of rebirth in spring. In order to create healthy soil, farmers burn fields and ditches to put nutrients back into the soil and revitalize the land. Again, the field is symbolic of the fact that with death comes rebirth. When the poem shows the image of the “storm that walked on legs of lightning”, it is actually an allegory that is symbolic of his angry emotions to his mother’s death. An expression of anger that his/her mother was taken away from
The poem takes place in April during the spring. Since spring is generally symbolic of new life and growth, it could be symbolic of moving on. While the narrator’s mother has died, her body will live on in the soil of the new spring. The reader is shown the contrast of blossoms against the green grass and burned ditches. He includes burnt ditches to emphasize the role of rebirth in spring. In order to create healthy soil, farmers burn fields and ditches to put nutrients back into the soil and revitalize the land. Again, the field is symbolic of the fact that with death comes rebirth. When the poem shows the image of the “storm that walked on legs of lightning”, it is actually an allegory that is symbolic of his angry emotions to his mother’s death. An expression of anger that his/her mother was taken away from