Beneath it rung the battle shout,

And burst the cannons roar; -

The meteor of the ocean air

Shall sweep the clouds no more.

In this excerpt from "Old Ironsides"by Oliver Wendell Holmes, what mood is created?

1. similar to the style used by many European poets

2. the nation's history and strength

3. war is frenzied and dangerous

4. symbolism to associate the ship with the strength of the United States

5. places the country on the same level as the older nations of Europe

6. physical strength

7. industrious

8. sensitive and caring

9. he blacksmith is someone people would do well to emulate

10. many core American values and the typical early nineteenth-century American community