Question

Read the following extract carefully and answer the question that follows:
And such is the grandeur of the dooms
We have imagined for the mighty dead;
And lovely tales that we have heard or read;
An endless fountain of immortal drink,
Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink.

(a) About whom have we heard or read the lovely tales?

Answer 1

Step 1: Reading the sequence:
The poet links great, imagined destinies with stories passed down about deceased heroic figures.

Step 2: Answer:
The tales are about legendary, great people from history who are no longer living — "the mighty dead" — whose glory lives on through the stories told about them.