Question

Read the passage.

“Then who is digging on my grave?
My nearest dearest kin?”
—“Ah, no: they sit and think, ‘What use!
What good will planting flowers produce?
No tendance of her mound can loose
Her spirit from Death’s gin.’”

In “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?” by Thomas Hardy, why aren’t the dead woman’s relatives visiting her?


a. They have grown tired of visiting.

b. They are planting flowers on a mound.

c. They have forgotten where she is buried.

d. They don’t believe it does any good.

Answer 1

the answer is they don't believe it does any good.

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

D. They don't believe it does any good.

"They sit and think, ‘What use!
What good will planting flowers produce?
No tendance of her mound can loose
Her spirit from Death’s gin."

These four lines explain it all. What good do flowers give to a dead person who has no consciousness? Flowers should be given to the living since they are the ones who can feel real feelings not the dead.

The rest of the options do not at least nearly explain the passage's meaning.