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Which word best describes the mood of this stanza from Edgar Allen Poe's "A Dream?"

In visions of the dark night
I have dreamed of joy departed—
But a waking dreams of life and light
Hath left me broken-hearted.

Warm
Violent
Sorrowful
Optimistic

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It should be C the others really don’t make any sense
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User James Crowley
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The answer is: Sorrowful

In this poem Poe is portraying a speaker that is used to the dark and the feeling that comes with it, the plot of his dream was the “joy departed”, however, after this, he begins to tell a different dream, a waking one, of “life and light” and that is what left him “broken-hearted”. Where you look the view that the narrator is showing is sad, this character has a deep sadness that does not depart from him. The mood in this stanza, is then, sorrowful.

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