What is tone that the poet uses in these lines
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TONE
The tone of a poem is the attitude you feel in it the writer’s attitude toward the subject or audience. The tone in a poem of praise is approval. In a satire, you feel irony. In an antiwar poem, you may feel protest or moral indignation. Tone can be playful, humorous, regretful, anything and it can change as the poem goes along.
Sometimes tone is fairly obvious. You can, for example, find poems that are absolutely furious. The Scots poet Hugh MacDiarmid didn’t care for mercenary soldiers (men who fight not because they believe in a cause, but because someone is paying them to fight). Here is MacDiarmid’s very angry “Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries”:
POETRY
Poetry is already so packed with emotion that seeing a poet swearing right at the start may be a shock, but MacDiarmid does exactly that. He makes the disturbing move of insulting the dead soldiers, calling them “professional murderers.” Usually, people try not to speak ill of the dead, but evidently MacDiarmid thinks so little of the mercenaries that he feels justified in insulting them. In the last two lines, he implies that, with such evil men in existence, human goodness persists only “with difficulty.” These clues lead you to MacDiarmid’s tone and his attitude toward his subject: contempt.
SOME TONE MEANS
The tone in a story indicates a particular feeling. It can be joyful, serious, humorous, sad, threatening, formal, informal, pessimistic, and optimistic. Your tone in writing will be reflective of your mood as you are writing.
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Dilip Chitre’s “Felling of the Banyan Tree” contains various lines that show the felling of the banyan tree. Such as “Its scraggy aerial roots fell to the ground”; “Sawing them off for seven days and the heap was huge”; “Fifty men with axes chopped and chopped”; “Insects and birds began to leave the tree”; “We watched in terror and fascination this slaughter”.