Which best describes the mood of cullen's poem "for a lady i know"?

a. scornful

c. happy

b. angry

d. joyous?

Cullen is expressing a., scorn, which is contempt toward the girl whom she is describing in the poem. The girl whom she is writing of believes that social hierarchy will exceed life and that the African American race will still remain inferior to her and work for her as slaves or servants in her afterlife, a notion that Cullen clearly believes is ridiculous and insolent.