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.