Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

Answer 1

D, thinks that using images of war to sell commercial products is distasteful

Answer 2

Answer: D)  thinks that using images of war to sell commercial products is distasteful.

Explanation: The tone of a story, poem, or text in general is the author's or speaker's attitude towards the audience, the subject or even the characters of the text. There are many different kinds of tones, like positive, negative, objective, subjective, happy, angry, sad, etc. In the given excerpt from Robert Lowell's poem "For the Union Dead", the speaker's tone suggests that he thinks that using images of war to sell commercial products (in this case the Mosler Safe "the Rock of Ages") is distasteful.