Read the stanza from "Monet’s ‘Waterlilies’” by Robert Hayden.O light beheld as through refracting tears.Here is the aura of that worldeach of us has lost.Here is the shadow of its joy.

The words “tears,” “lost,” and “shadow” create a sad, mournful mood. The speaker suggests that this world and its joy are no longer present, so the stanza illustrates a sense of misfortune. Choice B is the best answer.

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