Asked by Yay

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.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
reflect on what the bride is going through.

Directly addressing the bride with questions about her tasks and readiness draws attention to her feelings, duties and state of mind, prompting the reader to empathize and consider her experience.