Poetry is a piece of writing that people compose to express their feelings and inner thoughts. There are many authors who use poetry to communicate small simple messages or messages that relay important aspects of life. They use many literary devices and techniques to display their works of art. For instance, the tone of the author is important because it allows the readers to understand the attitude of the author and to imagine the author’s composure as if they were reading their poems out loud. The speaker in a poem is important because it helps the reader become familiar with the poem and creates a sense of connection through the poem. When words create imagery it has an effect mentally. “Negro” and “Birmingham Sunday (September…show more content… When listening for tone, the reader has to be aware of the attitude of the poem. “Suicide Note”, is about a young girl who committed suicide due to her “not so good” average achievement in college-not achieving what her parents wanted her to achieve. With the title being “Suicide Note”, readers can assume that the tone of this poem is solemn. Hughes wrote the poems, “Negro” and “Birmingham Sunday (September 15, 1963)”. The tone of the first poem is content. The writer is an African American man and he knows where he stands in the society. He does not have an attitude of anger or hostility, but is content with who he is as an African American man. On the other hand, the tone of his next poem is wretched. The author wants to convey an attitude that expresses his feelings for the loss of the four little girls during the fire. Through the tones of each poem, we are able to compare them in a state where there are serious attitudes, attitudes of grief or attitudes of contentment. There are tones that express the grieving of death and on the contrary an African American man forming into a person which was content to whom he was in society. The authors reveal many things through the tone such as composure, attitude and persona which then goes to show that this technique is successful in expressing different attitudes and concepts of poems that are
