Question

How does the poem end? (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

• A. With an imagined epitaph for the speaker
• B. With a description of the churchyard at night
• C. With a lament about the inevitability of death
• D. With a call to remember the forgotten villagers

Answer 1

Answer:

A. With an imagined epitaph for the speaker

• The poem ends with a quiet and reflective epitaph that the speaker imagines for himself. This self-written epitaph emphasizes humility, obscurity, and acceptance of death—echoing the poem’s overarching themes of mortality, the equality of all in death, and the dignity of the common man.