English

Esperanza Bailey

8 November, 11:25

Read the following excerpt of Muir's "Calypso Borealis" and answer the question. After earning a few dollars working on my brother-in law's farm near Portage [Wisconsin], I set off on the first of my long lonely excursions, botanising in glorious freedom around the Great Lakes and wandering through innumerable tamarac and arbor-vitae swamps, and forests of maple, basswood, ash, elm, balsam, fir, pine, spruce, hemlock, rejoicing in their bound wealth and strength and beauty, climbing the trees, revelling in their flowers and fruit like bees in beds of goldenrods ... Which word best describes the tone of this excerpt? Enthusiastic Hopeful Lonely Overwhelmed