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 ...

Participants in the Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest learn how to create a "tone map" for every poem that helps them break apart a poem and assign to different sections a tone that fits ...

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 ...

A lot of how we, as human beings, perceive the world around us has a lot to do with the tone and mood with which information is communicated to us. Mr. Scott of Hughes Academy in Charleston ...

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 ...