Wright provides mixed tones which consists of both depressing/doubt and hopefulness/positivity by showing two different points of views. In both points of views, the poet uses imagery to fully display the speakers’ feelings about the deaf child they are debating about. The first speaker explains how the boy’s childhood would be ruined without witnessing sound. The speaker asks, “How will he hear the bell at school...” (Wright 1). This shows the doubt and sadness there is to being deaf according the first speaker’s question. He already poses a question about how the child is defective and will not be normal like the other children due to his lack of his hearing. The second speaker responds, “ And he will see the birches boughs/ Outside the sagging
