Fior the answer to the question above, the two excerpts compare very similarly in terms of tone and mood because both excerpts play on the sympathy of the reader. Both excerpts have the same tone, which is regretful and sorrowful. The mood of the two excerpts is dark. These elements support the theme of each poem by enforcing the sorrow and regret of each poem. Both excerpts play on the empathy of the reader by using dark and sorrowful vocabulary terms and phrases.
An example of how the two excerpts compare similarly in terms of tone and mood is that in each poem, the narrator uses vocabulary and phrases such as "there was no one left to speak for me" and "famine at sea" or "degradations upon laborers" and words such as "agony", "poor", "silent", and "meanness". All of these words are dark, regretful, sorrowful, and melancholy in both tone and mood, reinforcing the idea that both excerpts compare similarly in terms of tone and mood.
Hello Tiffany,
Irony comes in many different shapes and sizes, but the main gist of irony is that it serves as a humorous contradiction.
An ironic ending then, would be an ending that concludes in a way that is different that what is expected, or that directly contradicts a character’s desires.
For instance, if a snail spent the whole story trying to run a one mile track, and then the story ended with the snail getting stepped on right before he crossed the one mile line. This is ironic for two separate reasons; one, because as readers we expect that the snail will finally complete the track, and the twist of events contradicts the ending we formed in our ahead. And two, the ending directly contradicts the snail’s desires and what he has been working for.
