poem i died for beauty, but was scarce

Question 1

I died for beauty, but was scarce

Question 2

adjusted in the tomb

Answer 2

setting
uncomfortable? still alive

Question 3

when one who died for truth lain

Question 4

in an adjoining room

Answer 4

how they came to talk

Question 5

He questioned softly why I had failed

Answer 5

softly to not trigger the author if the author was upset about it

Question 6

“For beauty” I replied

Question 7

“And I, for truth” -the two are one

Answer 7

and now, the author and this random guy are connected in a way; why they both died

Question 8

“We brethren are,” he said

Answer 8

brethren to mean comrade, said is used to highlight speech rather than to distract

Question 9

And so, as kinsmen met a night

Answer 9

they were as close as if they were kin, and talked all night. Night mmight mean because they ere in the tomb, so they couldn’t see anything and they were talking so happily that it only felt like one night

Question 10

we talked between the rooms

Answer 10

despite how far they were and how hard it would’ve been to hear each other, they still talked

Question 11

until the moss covered up our lips

Answer 11

hard to talk and decomposing
is this poem about connecting with others? does the author find truth beautiful? or is beauty a form of truth? (no way for the latter)
to show the long period of time they have talked for, until even moss is growing on their lips and they are decaying, rendering them hard to speak

Question 12

and covered up our names

Answer 12

identity is lost

i thought it meant that they talked for such a long time that everybody else forgot about them
or it is the author’s own identity, or recognition of her own self?

Question 13

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