Tone: "Not Waving but Drowning" by Stevie Smith

Tone plays a very big role in literature. The tone makes it easier for the reader’s to find out the attitude/ feelings towards authors literature “Not Waving but Drowning” by Stevie Smith, the tone is sad, cold, and somewhat culpable. “ Nobody heard him, the dead man,” this may mean he died emotionally and spiritually because no one heard his pleas for help. When he says, “But still he lay moaning:” he is showing pain, misery and that he is hurt that no one was there to help him when he needed help.

Hughes Video

Many people around the world find a way to express their feelings. Langston Huge expressed his feeling in his music. In the video “The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes’s shows how the people are dancing and having a great time while the musicians are playing the blues. The poem in the background has repetition and diction to it. The speaker in the poem is talking about his life, and about the way he and other blacks have to deal with white society. "I ain't happy no mo'… And I wish that I had died." lets us know he was not happy, he is sad and if he does not have his freedom it would be better if he died. "Ain't got nobody but ma self" he is telling us he feels lonely and isolated from everyone.. This poem is mainly about racial facts the speaker feels lonely and depressed.

Dangerous Minds

The film “Dangerous Minds” and the poetry “Do not go gentle into that good night” are related because they are both facing difficulties. The characters in dangerous minds have to fight everyday because gangs surround them. The poem relates to the film because the narrator father in the poem is fighting deaths and he is not going to give up easily so the characters in this film are not going to give up easily neither and fight everyday to stay alive. Since the students from the films were able to relate to this poem it encouraged them to fight to be better and made them be more interested in going to class, then not going to class and getting in trouble.