What best describes the theme of the songs Ophelia sings in Act IV?

anger

piety

loss

revenge

The theme of the songs Ophelia sings in Act IV of William Shakespeare’s "Hamlet" is loss. The first song that Ophelia sings is about lost lover ("He is dead and gone, lady,/He is dead and gone; /At his head a grass-green turf,/At his heels a stone.") implying on her losing Hamlet’s love. The second song’s lines are implying on lost virginity ("I would have married you, I swear,/If you hadn’t gone to bed with me.") and the third song is about death of her father ("He’ll never come again./His beard was white as snow,/His hair was all white too./He’s gone, he’s gone,"). All of the songs have in common the feeling of loss that Ophelia has for death of her father and for losing Hamlet.