Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The best way to think of tone in a poem is to imagine how it would be spoken and what mood you think the speaker ...

And although his poems have a brutal side to them, there is an unmistakable tone of hope. In “Shadows,” he speaks of escape, but not in the cowardly sense. He is escaping past sorrows in ...

and wrote a poem. “Life is short, though I keep this from my children,” it began. Smith had no idea that she was setting down the first lines of a work that would seize the mood — and social ...

Both poems today, the first by Jackie Kay, the second by Matt Goodfellow, capture the mood of the early days of January. They come from the spirited compilation A Poem for Every Day of the Year ...

prepare poems (including their own) to read aloud and perform, showing understanding through tone, volume and action listen to, respond to, discuss and learn poems and remember them by heart ...