Following questions are based on the poem given below:
Why should I be the first to fall
Off all the leaves on this old tree?
Though sadly soon I know that all
Will lose their hold and follow me.
While my birth-brothers bravely blow,
Why should I be first to go?
Why should I be the last to cling
off all the leaves on this bleak bough?
I've fluttered since the fire of Spring
And I am worn and weathered now.
I would escape the Winter gale
And sleep soft-silvered by a snail.
When swoop the legions of the snow
To Pitch their tents in roaring weather
We fallen leaves will lie below
Why has the bough been described as 'bleak' The bough is bleak because

Options

A. There are hardly any leaves left in it
B. It has gone dry
C. It has a pale brown hue
D. it is winter

Answer

A