The tone of Alice Walker's poem; “Women,” is determination you can tell because she is trying to portray that through the words she chooses such as when she says "... Headragged generals ..." it means the generals were not in the best of shape and yet, they transpired to do what needed to be done; and it is also stated when it says, "How they knew what we Must know Without knowing a page Of it Themselves."this means that they went through a lot to get them what they knew that they needed, an education, without having one
