At the end of “Erlkönig,” the __________.

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Goethe’s poem ends with the child’s death: the boy is seized by the Erlkönig and dies in the father’s arms.

Relevant knowledge points: the poem’s narrative voice alternates between a third-person narrator, the anxious father, the terrified child, and the seductive Erlkönig. The dramatic tension builds through repeated exchanges: the child’s fearful visions, the Erlkönig’s enticements, and the father’s rational reassurances. The musical setting by Schubert underscores urgency with a galloping accompaniment, reinforcing the fatal race to safety.

Step-by-step reasoning through the poem’s action:
1. Opening establishes a father riding through the night holding his child, the child whispering that he sees the Erlkönig.
2. The Erlkönig speaks directly to the child in successive stanzas, promising games, flowers, and the child’s mother’s love—attempts to lure him away.
3. The child becomes increasingly distressed, pleading with his father and reporting the Erlkönig’s threats. The father repeatedly explains the perceptions away as natural phenomena (mist, wind, willows), showing a contrast between adult reason and the child’s supernatural fear.
4. The pace accelerates: the father rides faster to reach the doctor’s house, but despite his haste the final stanza reveals the outcome.
5. The poem closes with the narrator’s report that when they reach the courtyard, the child is dead in the father’s arms—explicitly stating the fatal result of the encounter.

Why the correct option is correct: the last lines directly state the child’s death (“In seinen Armen das Kind war tot”), which implies the Erlkönig’s successful seizing of the boy (whether literal or symbolic). This ending is the canonical resolution in Goethe’s text and Schubert’s Lied.

Why other options are incorrect:
- Horse falls into the river and both drown: no such event occurs in the poem.
- Erlkönig banished by a priest: no priest or banishment appears; the poem contains no exorcism.
- They arrive safely and all is well: contradicted by the final line reporting the child’s death.

Thus the correct answer—boy is seized by the Erlkönig and dies in the father’s arms—matches the poem’s explicit conclusion.

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