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.