&glosstext=<b>MOOD:</b><br><br>This is the <i>feeling</i> or <i>emotion</i> communicated to the reader when he or she reads a poem. If someone storms into a crowded room and shouts angrily "Get out of here!" the <i>tone</i> of voice would be angry while the <I>mood</I> in the room would be one of unease or maybe even fear.<br><br>It is very easy to confuse mood and tone but the best way to tell the difference is to remember that tone has to do with the <i>attitude</i> of the speaker in the poem, and mood has to do with the <i>emotion</i> communicated by the poem.<br><br>Take these lines from Patrick Kavanagh's 'In Memory of My Mother':<br><br>		I do not think of you lying in the wet clay<br>		Of a Monaghan graveyard; I see<br> 		You walking down a lane among the poplars<br>		On your way to the station, or happily<br><br>		Going to second Mass on a summer Sunday...<br><br>The tone of these lines is at first defiant "I do <i>not</i> think of you lying in the wet clay", and then nostalgic "I see you walking down a lane among the poplars". The mood of these lines (the emotion behind them) is of the poet's love and feelings of tenderness towards his mother. There is also a slight hint of sadness and grief evoked by the image in the opening line of her "lying in the wet clay", even though the poet chooses not to focus on this image.