Tone and Mood Handout

Tone and Mood Video Questions

Name:____________________      
Date:_____________________

Directions: Listen to T.S. Eliot read The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock and answer the questions below.

1.     How would you describe his tone in the beginning of the poem? Use at least four adjectives to describe it.

2.     Pay attention to the ninth stanza (the one about the arms). Eliot’s tone seems to change here. Do you agree? Why or why not? What do you hear?

3.     Write here any lines that seem particularly powerful here based off of Eliot’s reading. (You may need to listen to it a few times to answer this.)

4.     What mood did Eliot invoke in you when he read the following lines:
-“That is not what I meant at all. That is not it at all.”

-“To say: ‘I am Lazarus, come from the dead, / Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all’-

-“We have lingered in the chambers of the sea/ By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown/ till human voices wake us, and we drown.”