&glosstext=<b>TONE:</b><br><br>This is the sound (or attitude) of the speaker's voice in the poem. From the tone of the poem we can tell how the poet feels about the subject that he or she is writing about happy, sad, angry, anxious, excited, mysterious, nostalgic, playful.<br><br>When you are thinking about the tone of a poem, pick out words and phrases that show the poet's attitude. Take the following lines from Wilfred Owen's 'Dulce et Decorum est':<br><br>		If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood 		<br>		Come gargling from the <b>froth-corrupted</b> lungs,<br><b>	    Obscene</b> as cancer, <b>bitter</b> as the cud<BR>		Of vile,<b> incurable sores</b> on innocent tongues,  <br>		My friend you would not tell with such high zest<br>		To children ardent for some desperate glory,<br>		The old <b>lie</b>:<br><br>Words like 'obscene', 'bitter', 'incurable' and 'vile' show us that the poet is <i>appalled</i> and <i>angry</i> by the horror of war.<br><br>It is important to remember the difference between tone and mood. The tone of the poem is the <i>attitude</i> of the speaker in the poem; the mood is the <i>emotion</i> communicated by the poem.