The choice of words used in the "Not Waving but Drowning" by Stevie Smith exemplified a tragic tone.
<h3>What is a tone?</h3>
A tone is the mood or attitude of the author as exemplified in the text and their choice of words.
Some of the words used are as follows:
- "Nobody heard him, the dead man," [Line 1]
- "(Still the dead one lay moaning)" [Line 11]
From the textual evidence above, it is clear that the tone of the poem is tragic as it speaks to someone who was fighting for his life but got his SOS call misinterpreted.
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The answer is A because before but there is always a coma
Answer:
The tone is based on word choice, so the meaning of words explain the ways the author feels about a topic or subject
Answer:
Your answer is Option A
Explanation:
Based on the given poem, the narrator says that he hears the flute of the narrator from his room and it is very beautiful, when it is dark.
He further narrates that in the daytime when the neighbor plays the flute, he does not want to hear it because it is daylight and the neighbor is far and has a bald head so he runs away and looks for something else to occupy his time.
When night time approaches, when he bears the flute, he tries to remove the image of the fat, bald man and think of him as a young man and the music is sweet to his ears once again.
The contrast the narrator creates develops the theme of the poem by portraying the narrator's vanity by wanting the beauty of the music to match the image of the man (option A)
