TONE

= Tone: = = The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work. = = = = For example: In Robert Frost's, A Road Not Taken, the last stanza demonstrates that the speakers has the tone of looking back at what appeared to be a decision that gave him joy; "I shall be telling this with a sigh/Somewhere ages and ages hence:/Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,/I took the one less traveled by,/And that has made all the difference." = = = = In this video example, the speaker shifts his tone throughout the poem: = = = = [|A Road Not Taken] = = = = = = = = = = =