Tone

Naturally humans reminisce on past experiences whether being a beautiful memory or a moment of regret. Robert Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays” dramatizes the conflict regarding self-remorse and complete oblivion. Hayden begins the poem describing the narrator’s fathers laborious Sunday routine, presumptively a daily routine established by the opening phrase “Sundays too my father got up early” (1). The poet creates this sonnet in a very simple structure, which flows so beautifully once the…

again. His roommate, also know as, the old man, had no interpretation what the narrator had anticipated for him. The author of “The Tell Tale Heart”, Edgar Allan Poe, used Characters, suspense, violence, to create a thrilling story. The narrator’s tone of voice is ominous, specifically when words reoccur four or five times “I felt that I must scream or die! –And now—again! --Hark! Louder! Louder! Louder! Louder!” (Poe 306). This exacerbates what the narrator is stating, and it circulates angst…

Kile...yer roi. We shouldn’t be 'ere. We nade ter go.” The seriousness in his tone was dark with a hint of mystery in Kile’s eyes,” Soon.” “Soon? Why not now?” “Last time I checked it’s not just you and me.” “Zoe wouldn’t risk you getting hurt. Ever.” “Doesn't hurt unless you try, right?” “Quinn.” Kile felt…

Tone in Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” “Tone is the attitude a literary work takes toward its subject, especially the way this attitude is revealed through diction” (Mays, A12). Tone is important in drama because it has a vocal tone that affects the meaning of the words (Mays, 1445). The tone of “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller is sympathetic, honest and mocking. The tone of “Death of a Salesman” is sympathetic. It is sensitive to the very real pain and suffering of the…

The tone in Texas v. Johnson and the tone in American Flag Stands for Tolerance are different because of the context they are written in. The tone in Texas v. Johnson is a very formal tone used to convince the public that their ruling is the correct one. Many examples of this are presented across the story. One example of this is “We”, this shows that the decision they made was one of unity and was made together. Another example of this is when the author writes “Decline” in the first line to…

The tone of stanza 1 is horrific. It includes this quote, “Shook all our coffins as we lay, And broke the chancel window-squares, We thought it was the Judgement-day.” This quote includes multiple words to make the poem feel horrific like coffins, broken windows, and Judgement-day. This shows that the world is in pieces and may be coming to an end, which for most is a horrific event. Coffins also shows this since, they hold dead bodies which since the mid-1800s has been the center for horror…

“Porphyria’s Lover” & “Neutral Tones”: The Sinister Similarities of the Speakers The loss of a loved one is perhaps the most difficult experience that humans ever come up against. The poem “Porphyria’s Lover”, written by Robert Browning, adds a sense of irony to this. At the most superficial layer, the speakers in both “Porphyria’s Lover” and “Neutral Tones”, written by Thomas Hardy, both deal with loss. The tones in “Neutral Tones” seem to be indifferent, or Neutral. The speaker of…

a film, a speech writer, or the author of a novel, getting your across is key. Certain words and phrases can help you do that. An author’s tone, or how they feel towards a topic, and how they show it, tells their audience what they’re feeling, creating the mood of the text. An author’s tone can be determined by their word choice. And subsequently, their tone can give insight into who they are or who a character is. Or at the very least, ponder what they might be like. Their word choice is so…

“Neutral Tones” is a poem of failed love written by Thomas Hardy during the year of 1867. It expresses the bitter end of a relationship and the deep rooted feeling of regret. The poem is believed to be written about a woman by the name of Eliza Nicholls, who Hardy met during his first visit to London in 1863 (Bloom 37). “Neutral Tones” includes Hardy’s predictable references to God, gloom, and distaste for a relationship. In the poem, the speaker reminisces about standing next to a pond on a…

reading. The mood is established by the writer’s tone, which is a reflection of the author’s feeling towards the subject. Edgar Allan Poe was a remarkable American writer from the 19th century who mastered the use of mood and tone. He is widely known for his ominous style of writing, especially in his short story titled “The Masque of the Red Death”. In this story, Poe engenders a mood of uneasiness and dread through his use of a dark and mysterious tone. He used grim words such as “ghastly”,…