Name poems - Part 2 - Tone

On Friday we continued our work with name poems by writing a second one. However, this time I asked you to think about tone and to use a different tone than you used for the first poem.

What is tone? Tone is the poet's attitude toward the poem, the subject matter, the speaker, and / or the reader. It is the feeling you have and the way you express it. Here is a link to a great list of potential tones a poem might have:

• Poems - Tones

At the end of class, we shared some examples of our name poems.