Answer:
Mood in a poem is the tone that the poem is written.
A mood is a literary element that stirs up certain feelings in its readers because of its contents.
The mood of a poem can either be sorrowful, happy, angry expectant, despondent, etc.
There are different types of poems such as ode, ballad, elegy, etc and they usually have typical moods.
In the end of the short story "The Old Chief Mshlanga", the girl's father decides to keep the twenty goats that trampled down his land. This decision deeply affected Chief Mshlanga's people, since these goats belonged to them, and not having them would mean that they would go hungry when the dry season begins. Thus, it was selfish from him to keep the goats.
