“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks”, -Plutarch. Since the first literally named poem dates back to around 1682, poetry has become a broad and common art form. Modern Conveniences, like any piece of music with lyrics, is a form of poetry, and some advertisements use poetry as a jingle. From well-known time-ravaged celebrities like William Shakespeare, to quite modern poets like Gary Soto or even Robert Frost, every poet is responsible for the overt quality of their poetry, what it conveys, and how it sounds; the tone (or tones) of a poem. The tone of a poem is a combination of the above, essentially the atmosphere created by the content of a poem; simple words that can reveal vivid, shining water, gently brushing feet across the rough sand of a long beach, or strangely ambiguous words that build a forest beneath the snow's feet, with a lonely silence hanging above. William Shakespeare, for example, employs an emphasized use of language to reveal the tone of betrayal in his poem “Take, Oh Take Those Lips Away.” However, emphasized 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 poetry through the use of connotations, changes or shifts in his poetry, and unambiguous word choices. What are some of the main conditions that deem a poem fantastic? Poetic devices, or “connotation,” are a set of multiple devices that turn 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 mainly used to make a poem funny, is represented in Fro...... middle of paper ......interruption are all feelings, and they all make up the tones of Robert Frost's poem. Poetic devices, changes and word choices are simply methods meant to address hidden interpretations and bring them to light, but what if human beings were considered poems or their emotions considered tones? “She chewed 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 by the sea.'” -Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things. Would the connotation, word choice and changes be able to show human emotions? The figurative language, punctuation, and simple word choice gracefully revealed the tones of “Stopping by 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 all depends on the interpretation.