Answer:
it leads readers to wonder what awful deed Great-aunt Gertrude must have. committed
William Cullen Bryant wants to show with this lovely poem ”Thanatopsis “ which means view on the death in Greek, that death is nothing to be feared. It is the natural thing that we all can die today or tomorrow and we could live with the assurance that we will meet the ones who went before us.
The three lines which best indicate this theme are:
<u><em>Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
</em></u>
<u><em>Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
</em></u>
<u><em>By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,
</em></u>
