Blood Dimmed Tide Poem Summary

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What is tone. It is the author’s attitude toward what he or she is writing about. This poem has a negative tone. It accomplishes this with the following lines. The lines used within this poem are; (Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.) (Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,) (The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere) Each of these sentences helps the reader to hear and visualize the negative tone of this poem. The words fall apart, anarchy, and blood-dimmed tide, are the words that instill the negative tone. These are the reasons why this poem has a negative tone.

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