Question

someone please help me figure out the tone and mood to this poem??

Answer 1

"I Sit and Look Out"
Walt Whitman

I Sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame;
I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men, at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done;
I see, in low life, the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate;
I see the wife misused by her husband—I see the treacherous seducer of young women;
I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love, attempted to be hid—I see these sights on the earth;
I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny—I see martyrs and prisoners;
I observe a famine at sea—I observe the sailors casting lots who shall be kill'd, to preserve the lives of the rest;
I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like;
All these—All the meanness and agony without end, I sitting, look out upon,
See, hear, and am silent.

Answer 2

This poem has a sad, wistful tone to it. Whitman describes all the horrible things that he sees, leaving the reader saddened if not depressed.

Answer 3

@historygeek96 thank you! could you help with another one?

Answer 4

i will try

Answer 5

please! and thank you @JReed231

Answer 6

"First they came for..."
Martin Niemöller

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out-—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

Answer 7

I would say that it is internal conflict and is sad

Answer 8

It's definitely very regretful as well, a sorry and guilty man longing to fix the past. It's very serious, a warning to those who would rather keep their mouths shut.