1. The setting of the poem takes place in a bar in Brooklyn probably a year ago in late July. Both the characters in the poem aren’t quite sober so their interactions aren’t ideal. The relationship between the two people at first is just two people from the same job having drinks. Their job, that probably doesn’t pay well and is lower class is one of the things they have in common. By the end of the poem, they reach an understanding and start to give tenderness towards one another.
2. The first speaker, a man who isn’t probably too attractive and doesn’t have the best luck with ladies is shy around the woman at the bar. As he tells her he loves her, he blows his nose. He tries to prove his sincerity for her by saying he watched her go up in her job, and also by comparing her to a tank that he saw in WWII. “I saw a tank slide though some trees at dawn like it was God. That’s how you make me feel.” It’s an interesting simile that has to do with destruction, and links life, love, and death together. In the end we learn that he is in fact a bigger man that’s subconscious about himself. We’re able to continue to question whether or not his love for this girl is actual love or just an infatuation.
3. The beautiful young woman, who has probably been hit on many times, doesn’t want an insincere guy. She doesn’t believe the man when he says he loves her, and instead throws a drink at him. After he convinces her that he’s different, the poem’s tone changes along with her feelings towards the man. Like once before, she jokes with the man, but this time in a more jokingly manner. When they were able to come to an understanding that he wasn’t just any guy, they grew a fondness towards each other.
4. Love in Brooklyn, unlike the Telephone, changes tone throughout the poem. Love in Brooklyn goes from the shyness of the man trying to impress an irritated woman to an impressed view of a man who had just wooed her. The Telephone’s tone (the mood not sound) is different than Love in Brooklyn because The Telephone had an overly confident man trying to impress a shier woman. The tone for The Telephone as a whole has a relaxed mood.
3) She jokes with him in a "lighter" manner. The joking at the end has a touch of caring in it.
ReplyDelete4) The tone in "Telephone" as changes towards the end of the poem. NOTE: Most poems have a tone change somewhere - this is usually the "shift" or "turn" of the poem and it's important for idea.