93.7k views
0 votes
In a 100-word paragraph, describe the tone of each poem. Include details from the poems to support your answer. the poems are places and chicago

User Phanindra
by
4.5k points

2 Answers

5 votes

Answer:

The poem "Places" has a relaxing and wistful tone. In the first stanza, the first two lines say "Places I love come back to me like music,

Hush me and heal me when I am very tired;" I can tell the tone is wistful because her words show her feelings.

The poem "Chicago" has a descriptive and confident tone. Looking at these lines show how the words describe things "Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted/against the wilderness,/Bareheaded,/Shoveling,/Wrecking,/Planning,/Building, breaking, rebuilding,".

Explanation:

This is the answer I used and my teacher gave me a 100%.

The other answer is the same one as in Edmentum, so I wouldn't use it.

All the words are 100% mine, I didn't copy off of anything.

User Terry Windwalker
by
5.6k points
4 votes

Answer:

In “Places” the narrator expresses a sentimental longing for the places she visited in the past. The tone of the poem appears to be nostalgic: “Places I love come back to me like music, / Hush me and heal me when I am very tired;”

In “Places” the narrator discusses one particular place that brings back disturbing, dark memories. She compares the “eerie” glow in the ship to the souls of people drowned at sea. She explains how she is haunted by a mysterious man’s voice at night. These images gives the poem a gloomy or dark tone:

In the ship's deep churning the eerie phosphorescence

Is like the souls of people who were drowned at sea,

And I can hear a man's voice, speaking, hushed, insistent,

At midnight, in mid-ocean, hour on hour to me.

In “Chicago” the narrator takes pride in the expanding and prospering condition of Chicago. This emotion gives the poem a positive tone: “Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be / alive and coarse and strong and cunning.”

In “Chicago” the narrator celebrates the spirit of the city and its people, which gives the poem a respectful tone or a tone of admiration:

Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted

against the wilderness,

Bareheaded,

Step-by-step explanation:

Edmentum answer.

User Nurp
by
5.0k points