While i was reading this poem i felt the woman talking, feeling, and i had this image of her standing on the edge of the river looking out, and longing for her husband to come back to her. Right from the beinging, with the line "while my hair was still cut straight across my forehead", it brings me to the image of a little girl who just wants to play around. But it seems like they are comparing her life to the path of the river almost. I get this from the idea that a river winds and bends, and you can't really see whats comming around the corner. This woman lowers her head, she can't really talk back, or look back in her life, and she can't really see forward either. She seems to be stuck. I get this from the fact that she say's shes growing older, and yet shes still reminiscing about her past.
I am a little confused about one line. It may be the context of the poem, but I am not sure what the line "why should i climb the look out?" refers to. Maybe it could be a metaphor for her looking for her husband, or someone in general. Or, it could be referring to looking into the future, how she doesn't really seem to even care about that; she is content where she is now.
Another line that is intersting to me is when she refers to the butterflies in the garden. Afterward, after a colon, the poet says that "They hurt me". I thought this was interesting. I believe its not a physical pain, but an emotional pain. The butterflies remind her of a better time, or a time when her husband was around, and by seeing them, it brings back those memories.
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