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.
A violent storm rages around a small ship at sea. The master of the ship calls for his boatswain to rouse the mariners to action and prevent the ship from being run aground by the tempest. Chaos ensues. Some mariners enter, followed by a group of nobles comprised of Alonso, King of Naples, Sebastian, his brother, Antonio, Gonzalo, and others. We do not learn these men’s names in this scene, nor do we learn (as we finally do in Act II, scene i) that they have just come from Tunis, in Africa, where Alonso’s daughter, Claribel, has been married to the prince. As the Boatswain and his crew take in the topsail and the topmast, Alonso and his party are merely underfoot, and the Boatswain tells them to get below-decks. Gonzalo reminds the Boatswain that one of the passengers is of some importance, but the Boatswain is unmoved. He will do what he has to in order to save the ship, regardless of who is aboard.
