Threatening

In the poem "The Apparition", the tone is very easy to describe. Throughout the poem, the speaker seems to speak in a very threatening and harsh tone. This can easily be identified just my the main idea of the poem in which the speaker would haunt the girl if she were to every leave him. This part is where the threatening tone is established. He then begins to spit out the harsh truth at her by saying how any other man would not be able to satisfy here as he would be albe to. This harshness is easily seen in just the idea of this section of the poem. But the tone is established in other ways as well. First of all, the word choice establishes the theme pretty well. At the beginning of the poem, the speaker is saying that IF you do this, THEN I will do this. Usually this kind of word choice represents an ultimatum or threat. Finally, the tone is also achieved through the diction. Words or phrases such as "poor aspen wretch" or "cold quicksilver sweat" all would be phrases that would be used in a poem with harsh toem and this reinforces the idea of a threatening tone.