What realization does aunt imogen come to by the end of the poem?
a. she understands that her dreams of marriage and family are dead.
b. she realizes that her sister’s life is not as pleasant as it seems.
c. she appreciates her ability to be independent and free from responsibility.
d. she regrets that she is an outsider and has not spent more time with her sister and her sister’s family.

By the end of the poem, Aunt Imogen understands that her dreams of marriage and family are dead. Option A is correct.

Aunt Imogen may to be very positive to this realization.

In the poem Aunt Imogen by Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Aunt Imogen” describes a medium-length character sketch of a woman who was experiencing the same situation as Robinson in his relationship with his three nieces.

a.She understands that her dreams of marriage and family are dead

Explanation:

This option is stated in the following stanza:

There was the feminine paradox—that she  

Who had so little sunshine for herself  

Should have so much for others. How it was

That she could make, and feel for making it,  

So much of joy for them, and all along  

Be covering, like a scar, and while she smiled,  

That hungering incompleteness and regret—  

That passionate ache for something of her own,

For something of herself—she never knew.

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