"I feel that I would like
to go there
and fall into those flowers
and sink into the marsh near them."
This poem inspires a feeling of sympathy in the reader. A woman who spent a long happy life with her husband has just lost him. He died, and now everything is receiving new life. It's a reminder of what she has lost and how her husband receives new life in the beyond. Like the cherry blossoms that the woman sees weigh down on the branches of the trees, so does her grief weigh on her heart and in an even stronger way. The beauty of these flowers that "color some bushes yellow and some red" that used to bring her joy is now trivial and unimportant. The yellow symbolized the friendship with her husband while the red symbolized love, and now that he is gone, she does not have either. They too have become trivial and unimportant. In the end, the woman talks of falling into the white flowers and sinking into them. White is the color of purity, and purity comes with death and Heaven. She wants only to sink into these beautiful flowers that make her happy, to be taken from the earth and made pure, and to be taken to Heaven, where she can join her husband once again.
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