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.

Very easily seen

Attempting to discover the tone of "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" is a very simple task. From the start, or even getting a sense of it from the title, the tone appears to be a very dreary and negative tone. This is mainly becuase the topic of the poem references death because of the funeral in the speaker's head. But not only does this central idea of the poem unveil the tone, the tone seems to be achieved through diction and style. First of all, Dickinson uses many negative words such as "mourners", "treading", "numb", "creak", etc. These words represent the tone ideally because of how they seem to fit the theme of death. When trying to get a sense of the poem's tone, the first thing to look for is proper diction to fit the tone becuase words such as these would never be used for a poem whose central theme was happiness. Lastly, I believe her style in part attributes to the tone because the ending of the poem just seems to cut off which resembles the suddenness of death bringing a dreary tone to the poem.