Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall." Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder If I could put a notion in his head: “Why do they make good neighbours? Isn’t it Where there are cows? But here there are no cows. Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That wants it down.” I could say “Elves” to him, But it’s not elves exactly, and I’d rather He said it for himself. What is the speaker’s mood in this excerpt?
playful
determined
childish
unhappy

According to the given question, we are asked to state the answer choice which can be used to describe the speaker’s mood in this excerpt.

As a result of this, we can see that from the given excerpt, there is the narration of how springtime brings out the mischief in him and he begins to ask some funny questions like whether the spring would make a good neighbor. This shows that the speaker's mood is that of a playful one.

Therefore, the correct answer is option A