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Nae Lux Posted 14 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing
Poetry
Can someone please help me with these three poems? I need help finding the tone of the poems and help finding examples of what makes the tone that way? Ill give what I think of the tone is and some examples can some one just let me know if its correct.
First Poem
Fire and Ice By: Robert Frost
The poem has a light but has maybe a depressing or wisdom tone as well
examples the world will end either with fire or ice.
http://poemhunter.com/poem/fire-and-ice
Second Poem
Gifts by: Shu Ting
The poem has a inspiring tone to it and the example is I will leave shining words in the pupils of children's eyes
http://yeartoliveresources.blogspot.com/2010/10/shu-tings-gifts.html
The third Poem
No thank You John by: Christina Rossetti
The Poem has a sensitive tone to it my example
I never said I loved you, John:
Why will you tease me day by day,
And wax a weariness to think upon
With always “do” and “pray”?
I never said I loved you, John:
Why will you tease me day by day,
And wax a weariness to think upon
With always “do” and “pray”?
You know I never loved you John;
No fault of mine made me your toast:
Why will you haunt me with a face as wan
As shows an hour-old ghost?
I dare say Meg or Moll would take
Pity upon you, if you’d ask:
And pray don’t remain single for my sake
Who can’t perform that task.
I have no heart?—Perhaps I have not;
But then you’re mad to take offense
That I don’t give you what I haven’t got:
Use your own common sense.
Let bygones be bygones:
Don’t call me false, who owed not to be true:
I’d rather answer “No” to fifty Johns
Than answer “Yes” to you.
Let’s mar our pleasant days no more,
Song-birds of passage, days of youth:
Catch at today, forget the days before:
I’ll wink at your untruth.
Let us strike hands as hearty friends;
No more, no less; and friendship’s good:
Only don’t keep ulterior ends,
And points not understood
In open treaty. Rise above
Quibbles and shuffling off and on:
Here’s friendship for you if you like; but love,—
No, thank you, John.
First Poem
Fire and Ice By: Robert Frost
The poem has a light but has maybe a depressing or wisdom tone as well
examples the world will end either with fire or ice.
http://poemhunter.com/poem/fire-and-ice
Second Poem
Gifts by: Shu Ting
The poem has a inspiring tone to it and the example is I will leave shining words in the pupils of children's eyes
http://yeartoliveresources.blogspot.com/2010/10/shu-tings-gifts.html
The third Poem
No thank You John by: Christina Rossetti
The Poem has a sensitive tone to it my example
I never said I loved you, John:
Why will you tease me day by day,
And wax a weariness to think upon
With always “do” and “pray”?
“No, Thank You, John”
I never said I loved you, John:
Why will you tease me day by day,
And wax a weariness to think upon
With always “do” and “pray”?
You know I never loved you John;
No fault of mine made me your toast:
Why will you haunt me with a face as wan
As shows an hour-old ghost?
I dare say Meg or Moll would take
Pity upon you, if you’d ask:
And pray don’t remain single for my sake
Who can’t perform that task.
I have no heart?—Perhaps I have not;
But then you’re mad to take offense
That I don’t give you what I haven’t got:
Use your own common sense.
Let bygones be bygones:
Don’t call me false, who owed not to be true:
I’d rather answer “No” to fifty Johns
Than answer “Yes” to you.
Let’s mar our pleasant days no more,
Song-birds of passage, days of youth:
Catch at today, forget the days before:
I’ll wink at your untruth.
Let us strike hands as hearty friends;
No more, no less; and friendship’s good:
Only don’t keep ulterior ends,
And points not understood
In open treaty. Rise above
Quibbles and shuffling off and on:
Here’s friendship for you if you like; but love,—
No, thank you, John.
Top answer
), by Rossetti: When I first read this, I thought it was contemporary American poetry. The syntax and vocabulary seem current, even the author's name sounds American - this sounds like how a modern American woman poet might write. The only thing that sounded a little unusual was the use of the word "Moll" in the fourth stanza, a name that is never used in the US.
- ), by Rossetti: When I first read this, I thought it was contemporary American poetry.
- The syntax and vocabulary seem current, even the author's name sounds American - this sounds like how a modern American woman poet might write.
- The only thing that sounded a little unusual was the use of the word "Moll" in the fourth stanza, a name that is never used in the US.
- Then I looked up Rossetti (I had never heard of her before) and was shocked to learn that she was a 19th century British poet.
- So my take on this is that the tone is "modern": cold, harsh, businesslike, hardly sensitive, as I see it.
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The third poem, No Thank You John (Is this where the term "Dear John" letter came from?), by Rossetti:
When I first read this, I thought it was contemporary American poetry. The syntax and vocabulary seem current, even the author's name sounds American - this sounds like how a modern American woman poet might write. The only thing that sounded a little unusual was the use of the word "M
When I first read this, I thought it was contemporary American poetry. The syntax and vocabulary seem current, even the author's name sounds American - this sounds like how a modern American woman poet might write. The only thing that sounded a little unusual was the use of the word "M
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The first poem, Fire and Ice, by Frost.
To me the tone is uninhibited, to the highest degree. Note the words used: world will end, fire, ice, tasted, desire, perish, hate, destruction, great.
To me the tone is uninhibited, to the highest degree. Note the words used: world will end, fire, ice, tasted, desire, perish, hate, destruction, great.
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The second poem, Gifts, by Shu. This is a translation out of the Chinese, and it can be translated in many different ways (and each translation will give a different "tone"). In my opinion, the word "tone" is not applicable to translations like this.
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