Question

Read the lines from "The Gardner" by Rabindranath Tagore.

Have you not finished your work yet, bride? Listen, the guest has come.
Have you not lit the lamp in the cowshed?
Have you not got ready the offering basket for the evening service?

By directing the questions in the poem to a bride, the author makes the reader

visualize the setting of the wedding.
reflect on what the bride is going through.
think that the author already knows the answers.
wonder what the guest must be thinking.

Answer 1

reflect on what the bride is going through.

Reason: addressing the bride with urgent, specific questions creates immediacy and invites the reader to consider her feelings, anxieties, and situation (rather than just picturing the setting or the guest).