“They made her a grave, too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true; And she’s gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp, Where, al
l night long, by a fire-fly lamp, She paddles her white canoe. “And her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see, And her paddle I soon shall hear; Long and loving our life shall be, And I’ll hide the maid in a cypress tree, When the footstep of death is near.” Who is the speaker in this section of the poem?
A: the maiden paddling the canoe
B: the lover searching for his lost bride
C: an unknown observer of the incident
D: the hired paddler of the canoe
I would say the lover searching for his lost bride because he says "long and loving our life shall be". It seems like death has come calling to take his loved one away but he will heed the warning of this happening and "hide her in a cypress tree" to be able to have the long and loving life with her.
She began The Outsiders at the age of fifteen, inspired by her frustration with the social divisions in her high school and the lack of realistic fiction for high .
