Read this excerpt from Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar.” “For though from out our bourne of Time and Place/The flood may bear me far,/I hope to see my Pilot face to face/When I have crost the bar.” Which mood does Tennyson evoke as he contemplates his death?
A. delight
B. grief
C. optimism
D. terror
1 answer
C. optimism