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In one sentence each, define tone and mood, and say whom each belongs to.
Tone is how the teller sounds; mood is how you feel.
Which word best describes the tone of stanzas 1 and 2 (lines 1–20): excited, offhand, furious or reverent? Give one reason from the stanzas, in your own words.
Ask yourself whether the speaker sounds as if he cares much about the journey yet.
Which statement correctly separates tone from mood?
Tone belongs to the teller and mood belongs to the reader.
Which sequence best describes the shift in the speaker's tone across the poem?
Think of the speaker changing from watching the weddings to feeling something about them.
Build a tone-and-mood tracker for the poem. For each of its four movements (stanzas 1–2, stanzas 3–4, stanzas 5–7 and stanza 8) give a two-word tone label, a one-word mood label, the main technique responsible, and one piece of evidence described in your own words. Then write a paragraph of about 100 words that uses your tracker to answer the question: how does the speaker's attitude change?
Use the four-step method for each row: name the tone, place it by stanza, show the technique, link it to meaning.
Write an answer of about 200 words to this question: How does Larkin's tone change in the poem, and how does that change shape its meaning? Use the four steps of name, place, show and link, and do not quote the poem.
Open with the overall shift in one sentence, then move through the stanzas in order, and finish with what the change tells us about the theme.
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