Question

How does the poet imagine her to be, after death? Does he think of her as a person living in a very happy state (a ‘heaven’)?
OR
Does he see her now as a part of nature? In which lines of the poem do you find your answer?

Answer 1

The poet’s imagination does not allow him to think of his dead loved one as a person living in a very happy state or in heaven. Rather he imagines her to be a part of nature, being buried under the earth. She rotates with the earth, along with the stones, rocks and trees.

The lines in the poem which show this are as follows:
“Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course With rocks and stones and trees.”