Read the passage from the poem "El Olvido," by Julia Ortiz Cofer. It is a dangerous thing to forget the climate of your birthplace, to choke out the voices of dead relatives when in dreams they call you by your secret name. Which best describes the tone of the passage?

The speaker calls forgetting one’s birthplace and relatives “a dangerous thing,” which gives the passage a grave, cautionary tone. The language is serious rather than angry or confused; although it mentions dead relatives, it does not mainly express grief, so “mournful” is less fitting. The best choice is serious.

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