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Read the passage. “Ah, are you digging on my grave My loved one?—planting rue?” —“No: yesterday he went to wed One of the brightest wealth has bred.” In “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?” by Thomas Hardy, what has happened to the dead woman’s widower? He has come to visit. He has died. He has remarried. He has moved away.

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He Has Remarried Since wed is short for wedding


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He has remarried.

In the passage, it says that "yesterday he went to wed". The action wed means to get married. We don't have any indication that he has died or moved away. We also don't see anything about him coming to visit. The speaker is talking to someone who appears at her grave thinking it is her husband, but it's not since he has gone to marry someone else.

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