Answer: The author intended to make the mood of the passage sad and melancholy using the imagery in the text. The text follows a person who has just lost their father and is mourning for him to come back. For example, when the text states “ But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.” The author is trying to get the readers to empathize with the person and feel their mourning and pain for the loss of her father as she watches his dead body.
