Read the excerpt from "Shout: A Poetry Memoir."
I ate red apples
heavy-salted on the tomb
the sleeping Victorian corpses
below fed me secrets
sentinel owls peered
from a grove of old pines,
all of us hoping, waiting on signs
of the change
that was promised
Which detail best contributes to the optimistic mood in
this excerpt?
"I ate red apples / heavy-salted on the tomb"
"the sleeping Victorian corpses / below fed me
secrets"
"sentinel owls peered / from a grove of old pines"
"all of us hoping, waiting on signs / of the change"