In the poem home they brought her warrior dead by Alfred Tennyson what does the poet want to convey through his comparison in the lineLike summer tempest came her tears?

In this poem, Tennyson compares the warrior's widow's tears to a summer tempest to showcase the suddenness and impact of her emotions. In effect, a summer tempest is a short burst of rain (a cloud-burst, almost), which occurs quite unexpectedly. These rains are marked by their force and suddenness. Therefore, by comparing the widow's tears to a summer tempest, the poet is telling us how all her emotions came flooding out at once upon seeing "his child on her lap"