I had to edit your question as what you were asking for
wasn't very clear. This poem does employ a very powerful idiom, but what you quoted in
your original question certainly wasn't an idiom. An idiom is defined as an expression
that is peculiar to a certain language and cannot be understood by a mere literal
definition of its individual words. These are very difficult for foreign language
learners to understand, as the phrases, such as "to have the upper hand," or "I played
my ace," have no literal meaning if you understand the words themselves, but point
towards comparing a situation with another one.
In "Miss
Rosie," this tremendous poem lamenting the "destruction" wrought by age, the poem ends
using a powerful idiom: "I stand up." This doesn't literally mean that the speaker does
stand up, rather, this idiom suggests the way that that speaker mourns for Miss Rosie
and wants to express her outrage, sadness and grief at what has happened to her.
Standing up is a symbol of solidarity and protest, and this is what the idiom refers to
in this poem.
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