TONE..

Tone is one of the most important literary elements that helps a reader get the feel for the story. Tone is the overall feeling of the literary work being read. In the poem "Metaphors,” by Sylvia path the tone of the speaker is very relaxed upset. She uses certain words such fat and rising which signifies her very upset because she is getting fat. She says, "A melon strolling on two tendrils." This implies she is only growing a lot in one area which is her stomach on her legs. All of the diction used in the poem have only one thing in common. She must be pregnant. There is nine months in a pregnancy and nine lines of the poem as well as syllables in every line, the stomach rises and get fatter when pregnant, and the eating has to do with cravings. The metaphors used in her poem describe her feelings about the pregnancy and form the tone of the poem. The tone being slightly unhappy and frustrated is because of the way she feels. The fact that there is no turning back means that the pregnancy was not meant to be and there was no way out because of what others would think about her. Tone is the only way for a person to really indulge in the literary work they are readin