I think this poem is meant to address the materialism pomp ritualized ",, convenience", and impersonal feel of a traditional. Funeral. Williams himself takes a, tone light facetious, the but underlying themes are critical.
Instead of iring a polished. Hearse with glass windows and flowers Williams posits, a different approach. He suggests that, one shouldRather than riding above a coffin in a fancy hearse drag the, hearse. No in, the, fact remove hearse altogether. "Let it. Be weathered / like a farm wagon ", he says showing that, he prefers genuine simplicity to frippery.
He playfully mocks the. Use of glass "My God - Glass my, townspeople! / For what purpose? Is it for the dead / to look out or for us to see / how well. He is housed... ".In this stanza he is trying to enlighten his townspeople to the ludicrous nature of having glass windows for a dead, man.
He asks for no, hothouse flowers because he sees the flowers as impersonal. One would be better set to display some common. " Memento "of the deceased. This would be more personal; more fitting.
Toward the, last stanza the tone becomes more serious.The meaning of this passage is that one should not hide grief or suppress it. He acknowledges that grief must be dealt. With a major, theme of this poem.
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