Question

What does the speaker imagine at the end of the poem?

• A. The speaker's triumphant return from battle
• B. His own death and burial
• C. The speaker's joyful reunion with a loved one
• D. The speaker's vision of a prosperous future

Answer 1

Answer:

B. His own death and burial

• He envisions himself being laid to rest beneath an old tree, just like the others buried in the churchyard.

• The poem even concludes with an imagined epitaph for himself, reinforcing the theme of the universality and inevitability of death.