View Types Of Tones In Poems Gif. In literature, the tone of a literary work expresses the writer's attitude toward or feelings about the subject matter and audience. Depending upon the personality of the writer and the effect the writer wants to create, the work can be formal or informal, sober or whimsical, assertive or pleading.
Tone must match purpose in order for an argument to be successful.
This tone leads us into thinking that the speaker in the poem had to make a difficult choice. It can convey the positive, negative, neutral, and everything in between. Tone is as diverse as our emotions. Also, some poems are catchy and tell a brief story, others are long, and are called epic poems, but thats a whole different topic.