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
By using the term'' to pitch the tents''the poet is referring to the

Options

A. leaves on the trees
B. to leaves on the ground
C. snow covered trees that look like tents
D. to the barren tree

Answer

C