Read "Grass" by Carl Sandburg:
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work -
I am the grass; I cover all.
And pile them high at Gettysburg
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, ten years, and the passengers ask the
conductor:
What place is this
Where are we now?
I am the grass.
Let me work.
Which statement best describes the speaker's tone in this poem?