Speaker and Tone in Poetry
Students will differentiate between the poet and the speaker, and analyze how word choice and imagery establish the poem's tone.
Key Questions
- Differentiate between the poet's voice and the speaker's voice in a given poem.
- Analyze how specific word choices contribute to the overall tone of a poem.
- Predict how a shift in tone might alter the reader's interpretation of a poem's message.
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