In, "Leaving the Motel", W.D. Snodgrass focusses on a tone of cold-secrecy and passive-love. At the begginning of the poem, the tone is very intriguning because it presents a man and his mistress having an affair. The man is very secrative and cold. He goes through a checklist of what he should and should not take in the motel. He is very calculated to the detail with everything to make it seem as if he was never there. More importanly, the man shows no sign of affection towards his mistress, just sex. However, in the fifth stanza the tone sifts after the man decides to leave flowers with and asprin inside it. It is very interesting that he decides to leave her flowers which represent signs of love and affection. In addition, how facinating
