Overstatement in Sorting Laundry by Elisavietta Ritchie

In reading this poem, I got a tone of sadness and it finally became real in the last line when the speaker mentioned "the empty side of the bed". This is the second poem we've read about a widow who is reminded of her husband through things. The trees and flower in "Spring" or "Autumn", I forget which one, reminded the widow of her husband. In this poem, a few items remind her of her husband, like the shirt from Kuwait, but she seems more overwhelmed by the clothes and her loss. In line 49, she mentions "a mountain of unsorted wash". This overstatement is a little more significant I think than just describing how much clothes she has to fold. I think the author uses it as a comparison to the emotional mountain this woman will have to get over to get on with her life.