“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks”, -Plutarch. Since the first literally named poem around 1682, poetry has become a widespread and common art form. Modern equipment, like any piece of music accompanied by lyrics, is a form of poetry, and some advertisements use poetry as a jingle. From well-known celebrities ravaged by time like William Shakespeare to fairly modern poets like Gary Soto or even Robert Frost, each poet is responsible for the manifest quality of their poem, what it conveys, and what it looks like; the tone (or tones) of a poem. The tone of a poem is a combination of the above, essentially the mood created by the content of a poem; simple words that can expose bright, flowing water, gently grazing its feet on the textured sand of a long beach, or strangely ambiguous words that build a forest beneath the foot of the snow, with a lonely silence hanging above . William Shakespeare, for example, employs an accentuated use of language to reveal the tone of betrayal in his poem “Take, Oh Take These Lips Away.” However, accentuated uses of language are not the only method of revealing the tone of a poem; Robert Frost, author of “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” reveals the multiple tones of his poem through the use of connotations, changes or shifts in his poem, and unambiguous word choices. What are some of the main conditions that consider a poem to be great? Poetic devices, or “connotation”, are a set of innumerable devices that transform an unoriginal and uninteresting poem into an entertaining poem. Figurative language, a poem's rhyme scheme, and other poetic devices make up the basic content of this term. Connotation, although primarily used to make a poem entertaining, is represented in Fro...... middle of paper ...... Breakups are all feelings, and they all make up the tone of Robert's poem Frost. Poetic devices, shifts, and word choices are just methods of confronting cowering interpretations and bringing them to light, but what if humans were seen as poems or their emotions as tones? “She bit her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am a model, or a race of people whose whole world has been swallowed up by the sea.' » -Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things. Would connotation, word choices and changes be able to express human emotions? The figurative language, punctuation, and simple word choices gracefully revealed the tone of “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening,” but what would be applicable to humans, if such circumstances existed ? As was the case with the many tones of Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", it's all up to interpretation..