Explanation Of Tone

In the third stanza it states that “If she wants to grill anything, it's her husband spitted over a slow fire. This quote makes me feel that she want to kill her husband because he is probably not helping her at home and making her his slave. I believe that this person is tired of cooking and being a slave to her husband. In the end of the poem, it also states “During dinner is not incompetence but war”. This means that this happened for a long time I believe that women all over the world are being mistreated and they should stand up for what they believe in. Therefore women should be treated the same way men are being

The author was giving a message then at the end of the poem it changes. He was giving the message that war happens to everybody and that they will have to go to war at some point in there life. The problem is that they don’t know the bourdon that it puts on the people that he has supported and been supported by until his son is sent of. He gets a totally different feeling when he doesn’t know what could happen to his son. He gets his message across by proving that every body has something to do with war wether they like it or not. Your parents might have been to war, if not them then your uncles, cousins, friends, or your neighbors(old men). Then if it isn’t them it could be your child who is going and the feeling is different, you lose the feeling of security when you cant protect your child. He

1. This quote shows unusual behavior for the time period present. In the Victorian times, it was the man’s duty to take care of the wife and children, or in other words- to take charge of the family in general. It was a sign of strength for men. Since Mrs. Joe is the one taking care of the family, which was commonly the husband’s job in this era, Joe is considered a weakness to his society and to his wife. This is because he is not taking charge for his family. The determination and strength coming from Mrs. Joe was also not very common either for women of the time. (109 words)

Finally, it may suggest the face paint soldiers wear so they can blend in with their surroundings. The next few lines span a range of emotions which include: anger, sadness expressed through tears, and the persona's resolve not to cry. He even curses himself for beginning to cry, an action that can be considered un-masculine for a man.

Greenberg is so clever with the use of verbal irony throughout the poem. The wife is really being sarcastic to her husband, in an attempt to reveal her desires that are evidently ignored. The main line that triggered my understanding was, "Not strong, not proud, not just, not provident, my lover would blame me for his heart's distress, which you would never think to do" (630). Once again, I initially thought she was complimenting her husband and showing him great respect. This strong, proud, just and provident man seemed perfect. However, the choice of words "...my lover would blame me for his heart's distress..." is what enlightened my thinking (630). The wife wanted to be so important to her husband that she would be the only thing that causes him distress. She actually resents this prideful man who seems to make everything else more important that her.

poem wherein she’s revealing her never-ending love, devotion, and appreciation for her spouse. The fact that she was born around the seventeenth century could mean it is puritan culture for women to remain reserved, regardless of how they may truly feel; however, she makes it her obligation to make her husband aware of feelings, whether positive or negative. She uses figurative language and declarative tone through imagery, repetition, and paradoxes to send her message. "To My Dear and Loving Husband" can be interpreted in many ways by many different people depending how it is initially read. This uncertainty allows the poem to be interpreted on a surface level and on a deeper level.

In the poem, 'The Homecoming' the new wife describes to her husband all the things she doesn't like about his house when she says, 'a floor o' wretched stone, and nasty pewter platters, horrid forks of steel and bone, and a monstrous crock in chimney.' This shows childishness on the girl's behalf, possibly showing that all her life she has been treated like a lesser member of society, which is shown as an attitude towards women in the early 20th century. An attitude to marriage was that a girl's father looks after her until she is married, then her husband takes up that job, which is shown in 'The Homecoming' when her husband says to his wife, 'I'll sing to 'ee a pretty song,' which is extremely

Most of the poem is sweet, but also tells them to hurry and enjoy life right now before they run out of time. Also that their bodies are energized now and later on they won’t be able to do what they would do when they were younger. In comparison to “To His Coy Mistress” the author tells them to get married also because they have something that time will sooner, or later take away and that would be sad that they didn’t get to enjoy it just because they wanted to

The poem “To my Dear and Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet, is not just an exceedingly felt expression of a wife’s marital love and commitment to her husband, as it is about a puritan women who is supposed to be reserved but she makes it her obligation to enlighten her husband of her devotion. A thorough analysis of the poem’s paradox, hyperbole, imagery and repetition reveals how she conveys her message.

The overall message in this poem is a drill sergeant educating young soldiers and preparing them for the harsh reality of war. He is not playing ‘Mr. nice guy’, he is being tough and strict to give the soldiers no easy way out.

The poem then transitions to the post-marriage life of the couple in stanza two. In lines eight through ten, the speaker states that she is too shy around her husband. Not only does she not smile, but also she does not answer her husband when he calls her. This shows that the speaker's life took a great emotional transition, as she is overly shy and feels uncomfortable around him. However, around the middle of the second stanza, the speaker transitions into another stage of

The relationship that the poem refers to is a domestic one husband, and wife, with the family and its occupants in the center. The speaker’s male tone comes from the way he talks about the house, his description of how it is falling apart, and how he feels inside. The age of the speaker is unknown, but he is undoubtedly old enough to recall a past event. Another indicator of the speaker’s male tone it is the trend for males to hide their feelings of pain -and what better way than to use the house as an implied metaphor. Rather than addressing anyone in particular, the speaker seems at first describing how the relationship starts to fall apart:

The dark, dreary sky was filled with cackling witches; that is an example of tone. There are many different and intriguing tones used in “The Gift of the Magi”, written by O. Henry, and “The Scarlet Ibis”, written by James Hurst. At first, in “The Gift of the Magi” the author, O. Henry, used a very sad and depressing tone. For instance, “Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating” (Henry 204). He is trying to paint a very pessimistic view of life. Similarly, in the beginning of “The Scarlet Ibis” the author, James Hurst, used a very mournful and gloomy attitude. James Hurst decides to use the personification, “The last graveyard flowers were blooming, and their smell

The speaker thus feels as if he has been betrayed, and as a result, he is melancholic. The author’s point of view in stanza 2 allows us to see that the man is portrayed as the weaker individual. The speaker says, “Therewithall sweetly did me kiss / And softly said, ‘Dear heart, how like you this?’”(Lines 13-14). The woman treats him kindly, yet refers to him as an animal. He is clearly displayed as the subordinate one in the relationship, as opposed to the speaker’s belief that women are dependent on him (lines 5-6).

The poem starts with similar word choices as ‘The Soldier’ but written in the perspective of the mother. The mother tells his son that when he dies he will be in a place of ‘quietness’ and free from the ‘loss and bloodshed’. This reinforces the fact that the battlefield was full of horrors and death. The poem then moves onto how ‘men may rest themselves and dream of nought’ explaining that the soldiers do not have to fear for their lives after their death. This illustrates how they feared for their lives and had negative connotations.