The second half of the poem When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd

The second half of reading the poem revealed that the author describes many different things and jumps from place to place. To begin with, the author takes the reader to a burial-house where the speaker in the poem is wondering what to place on the walls. Granted what the speaker describes to put on the walls is rather wonderful since the pictures are of beautiful landscapes that the reader can easily imagine since the speaker talks of these scenes in great and glorious detail. Nevertheless the speaker jumps to a new scene at a former place that the reader has already been to; the swamp. While at the swamp the speaker yet again meets the powerful singing bird but at the same time the speaker talks of death again like it is a person. The speaker even goes as far to show the reader that there are companions with Death and in line 144 shows the reader that death is apparently a female. Nevertheless the speaker then sees visions of the civil war battle fields but the visions are not spoken of in a grim way, rather they are shown that the dead are at rest and all who are living suffer at their death. But as the ending draws to a close I felt more confused at first only to realize that the speaker seems to be possibly coming from a soldiers perspective since the last six lines of the poem speak on the memories of those comrades that have died and that the speaker will hold on to the memories of them. I must say that this poem was a difficult one to read but as long as I delve into the text and ask many different questions, I will find answers after several readings of this poem.