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List of Frost Poems to Demonstrate Tone

One of the hardest things to demonstrate and teach is how tone or mood is developed in a poem. It is all wrapped up in things like word choice, meter, imagery, anthropomorphizing, dialogue, sonics, structure, etc., and is really hard to pin down! 

Here are a few Frost poems that are super for demonstrating tone or mood: 

“A Late Walk”:
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“Storm Fear”
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“Now Close the Windows”
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