Tone / Mood

Tone is a reflection of the speakers attitude towards the subject of a specific work and mood is the feeling that a reader receives as a result of the tone from said work. Tone and mood are the emotional backbones of a work and they are created through a writers specific stylistic choices. In the poem Daddy by Sylvia Plath, as I stated in my previous blog, she used very melancholy and grim words to set the somber mood of the poem. And her aggressive tone can be revealed through her angry language such as "Daddy, daddy you bastard" and her repetition of "I'm through."