"Her Way"

This poem intrigues me the way it was written starting from the title "Her Way." Although the title justifies the poem upon the first few lines I seemed to get caught off gaurd; "What water she poured on the floor/Was more than she needed" this seemed to take my idea away of my idea of the poem being about a women who literally gets "Her Way" because Nye seemed to discredit an act done by her "pouring too much water on the floor". Then the poem seems to twist "Yet her buckets were full/The great buckets of field and orchard/She was dragging them room to room/in a house that already looked clean". The buckets seem to symbolize the women having some sort of a burden upon her, or some duty, and the clean house I think has to symbolize her work load yet already done. In the third stanza Nye talks about soldiars and blood, could she be referring to war? "she was walking with her neck straight/Her eyes placed ahead" I think this poem starts at this point to show a women with an ambition to do good and "her way". I still however don't understand fully the point of this poem. What is this women that cleans necessarily portraying?