Monday, 11 May 2009

Please explain what this line of the poem means (poem is "ah, are you digging on my grave?)?

Please decipher line 4 for me








"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.


'It cannot hurt her now,' he said,


'That I should not be true.'"





"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.'"





"But someone digs upon my grave?


My enemy? -- prodding sly?"


-- "Nay: when she heard you had passed the Gate


That shuts on all flesh soon or late,


She thought you no more worth her hate,


And cares not where you lie........................

Please explain what this line of the poem means (poem is "ah, are you digging on my grave?)?
the dead girl is asking who is digging in the still soft soil above her grave, and why.





first of all she asks is it her former lover, and is he digging a hole to plant some rue (as a sign of how much he misses her).





'no,' answers the digger, 'your lover got married yesterday, to one of the richest girls in this area. he told himself you wouldn't mind, since you are dead now.'





....





and then the digger answers that he isn't her relatives, nor even her bitterest enemy while she was alive ...





so who could this mystery digger be? and why is he digging here?
Reply:"one of the brightest wealth has bred"





the girl must be one of the top picks to marry among those who belong to wealthy families.


the most beautiful, the most bright...


the guy who went to 'wed' her is a very lucky guy because he got the best girl that everyone else could only wish to have
Reply:It's means for me at least that the people in the girl's life, are not letting her rest in peace, that her after life is innterupted by the living, in effect tampering with her resting place.

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