What does the poet mean in the following lines from “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”? Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined
a. The villagers’ simple lives helped them avoid evil.
b. The villagers’ vices were the cause of their hard lives.
c. The villagers’ lives prevented them from being good.
d. The villagers’ faults were hidden by their deaths.
The author of this poem means with that line that death was something that had to happen to them. The death was something inevitable, that was their destiny but nobody wakes up every day thinking that you are going to die, for this reason, the author wants to express that their simple life style helped them to cope with the thought of death, by simple he mean humble as it is not hte case of the rich people who did nothing but crimes. Like everyone, the people form the village had virtues and some "crimes" that died with them that day.
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