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    The tone of the text :)

    Hi elite,
    brauche ne Übersetzung bzw, ne erklärung für den englischen Begriff: Tone of the text. Haben wir in der Schule durchgenommen aber ich raffs noch nicht ganz. Ihr seid ja sowieso die besseren Lehrer ;)
    mfg

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    The tone of a text refers to the emotional attitude expressed by it. A text's tone can be happy, sad, angry, and so on. Perhaps the most interesting tonal features of a text--and the ones most worth annotating--are when the tone becomes harder to grasp.

    An example of a more complex tone, worth annotating, comes at the end of Owen's "Dulce et decorum est," when Owen's quotes the two Latin sayings celebrating sacrifice in war: "dulce et decorum est" and "pro patria moriea" ("it is sweet and right to die for one's country"). We hear the stirring sentiment of these lines, but we also hear the poet's skepticism about their sentiment, given the way Owen introduces them and also given their appearance after so much horrendous detail about suffering in war. A tonally sensitive reading of the poem will note that these lines are skeptically rendered rather than celebrated, and will annotate them accordingly.

    Often these more complex tones involve some form of verbal irony--of saying one thing and meaning another. Owen does not think that death for one's country is sweet or right, though he repeats the Latin tag. An even more complex instance of such irony comes in Owen's address to the "Friend" who might repeat this tag but should not. Does the poet really mean that this person is a friend, but is misguided? Or is there more anger in the address? Is "friend" ironic?

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