Question

Read the poem "Wind" (below) and analyze the tone throughout the poem. Use information from the poem to support your analysis. (Use the connotation of the diction in the poem to select a TONE adjective and use specific words to prove your tone selection.)

This house has been far out at sea all night,
The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills,
Winds stampeding the fields under the window
Floundering black astride and blinding wet

Till day rose; then under an orange sky
The hills had new places, and wind wielded
Blade-light, luminous black and emerald,
Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.

At noon I scaled along the house-side as far as
The coal-house door.
Once I looked up—
Through the brunt wind that dented the balls of my eyes
The tent of the hills drummed and strained its guy rope,

The fields quivering, the skyline a grimace,
At any second to bang and vanish with a flap:
The wind flung a magpie away and a black
Back gull bent like an iron bar slowly. The house

The response provides a clear, complete, and accurate answer to the task.
The response provides relevant and specific evidence.
The response is revised with mature diction and edited with formal conventions.

Answer 1

hloooooooooo good morning