Keaton's Lament of Poetry in Falltime

The title of this blog may be a misnomer.  As much as it kills me to say this, I didn't entirely hate William Williams (yes, that's his name) poem The Widow's Lament in Springtime, though probably not for academic reasons.  First, the sentences were split up into friendly little lines of five or so words, making the poem easy to read and pleasant looking.  Second, the ending was really creepy ("I feel that I would like/ to go there/ and fall into those flowers/ and sink into the marsh near them." lines 25-29) and conjured up for me images of The Ring and other charmingly disturbing visuals.  On a more scholarly note, I saw this as the opportune time to answer #11!  You see, this poem is filled with literary contradictions like paradoxes, oxymorons, and juxtaposition usage.  How exciting!  Some prime examples are a reference to "cold fire" [line 5] or the placement of the words "grief" and "joy" only two lines apart [line 15, 17].  It is my belief that these conflictions were used to show the internal struggle waging war on our widow, who both recognizes the beauty of spring and fails to fully appreciate it due to the loss of her husband.

Isn't spring beautiful?