Definitions

 

 

Speaker

• The person supposedly uttering the poem.

 

 

Voice

• The speaker of the poem.  The reader should not assume that the speaker is the poet.
• The characteristic sound, style, or tone of a particular poet.

 

 

Audience

• Those who read the poems of a given poet.
• Those for whom a poet may write.

 

 

Tone

• The emotional spin a poet puts on his words; the edge of attitude in the voice of a poem.
• In a poem, tone is the coloration of the words, their shading, warmth or coolness (as in painting).
• It is also how they sound, their pitch (high or low), their harmony (sweet of shrill), their volume (loud or soft), (as in music).etc.