Read the excerpt from “The Morning Dream.”

'TWAS in the glad season of spring,
Asleep at the dawn of the day,
I dream'd what I cannot but sing,
So pleasant it seem'd as I lay.
I dream'd that on ocean afloat,
Far hence to the westward I sail'd,
While the billows high lifted the boat,
And the fresh-blowing breeze never fail'd.

The author uses nonstandard English in the excerpt to create a

setting of fear and foreboding.
setting of gentle beauty.
character with many flaws.
character with admirable traits.