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Uncovering Tone in Poetry vs. Tone in Paintings

• Details in a painting that contribute to tone include subject, color (light and shadow), subject, title, brushstroke, and sharpness of the image.
• Details in a poem that contribute to tone include speaker, diction, imagery, syntax, structure and style, rhythm and meter.

Part One Directions: collaborative work with a painting

1. View the painting "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" by Peter Bruegel.
2. Consider the artistic elements that contribute to the painting's tone. What is the tone of the painting and how is that tone developed by the artist? Gather your own annotations of the text, then share those with your group. Have the group come to a conclusion about the painting's tone and why the group believes it is such. Write your answer down somewhere (word doc or handwritten). Include specific references to the painting.

Part Two Directions: collaborative work with a poem

1. Read the poem "Musee des Beaux Arts" by WH Auden. The poem is posted below.
2. Consider the poetic elements that contribute to the poem's tone. What is the tone and how is that tone developed by the poet? Refer to specific elements of the poem in your analysis.

Part Three Directions: independent practice

1. Visit this page for an AP style prompt.

Peter Bruegel the Elder (1525-69)

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

(1558)

Bruegel's painting online

Musee des Beaux Arts

About suffering they were never wrong,

The Old Masters: how well, they understood

Its human position; how it takes place

While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;

How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting

For the miraculous birth, there always must be

Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating

On a pond at the edge of the wood:

They never forgot

That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course

Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot

Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse

Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.

In Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away

Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may

Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,

But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone

As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green

Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen

Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,

had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

--W.H. Auden

Poem from: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/mus-eacute-e-des-beaux-arts/