He for peace.
fought
worked
He thought on homeland, the big timber, the air thin and chill all the year
long. Tulip poplars so big through the trunk they put you in mind of
locomotives set on end. He thought of getting home and building him a
cabin on Cold Mountain so high that not a soul but the nighthawks
passing across the clouds in autumn could hear his sad cry. Of living a life
so quiet he would not need ears. And if Ada would go with him, there
might be the hope, so far off in the distance he did not even really see it,
that in time his despair might be honed off to a point so fine and thin that
it would be nearly the same as vanishing.
yearned
prepared

yearned

Explanation:

he had hope which showed that he longed for it.

there purpose is to entertain

first of all the mood needs to be defined: it is obviously a mood of deceitful relief and serenity. why? because the cape horn is one of the most violent maritime regions of earth and although it has been left behind, it is a personification of ahab’s delirium and the fact that the end of the passage speaks about it about being “hidden” but “raving” immediately conveys the feeling the calm is not permanent but fleeting.

furthermore, the oxymoron “mild stun'sails” is the first instance of such feeling as the adjective “mild” is associated with “stunned” underscoring the fleeting nature of this “tranquil” moment. and the contrasts keep piling up, with the opposition between “dark den” and “blessed light and air” to end with the final conclusion that leaves the reader with the uneasy knowledge that this is just a reprieve.