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 would be in. There will be clues to the tone not just in the language but in the ...

As well as word meanings, don't that forget sound plays a crucial role in evoking or strengthening an emotion or a mood, too. Read the poem aloud and pay attention to the sound and rhythm ...

Thousands of years ago, humankind figured out how to transform one of our greatest inventions into infinite beauty, and language gave way to poetry. From the prehistoric poems of the Nile ...