Main Page	Tone is the attitude taken toward its subject and theme. The speaker in this poem creates an image of anger, madness, and hatred.  The speaker uses his tone to convey the emotions he is going through upon realizing his mistakes.  He is angry at lust and goes through all the emotions that a person goes through when they realized they made a mistake. In the first four lines Shakespeare uses a lot of vowels to create an angry language about what he thinks about lust. Line 1: Expense, waste, shame. Line 2: lust, action, action, and lust. (Repeated to show the intensity of this anger) Line 3: Perjured, murderous, bloody, blame. Line 4: Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, trust. His tone changes to enjoyment in the fifth line beginning with the word “Enjoyed”.  Now all of a sudden lust is an enjoyment.  But he cannot decide if it is an enjoyment or “despised straight.”  Line 5: Is it “enjoyed” or “despised straight” Line 6: Is it “Past reason hunted” or “no sooner had” Line 7: Is it “Past reason hated” or “swallowed bait” In the eighth line, it is as if the speaker has realized lust is a mad obsession which he uses the line, “mad in pursuit, and in possession so.” In the ninth line, he emphasizes his madness by using quick beats, “Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme”. In the tenth line he goes back to debating if he should be angry about lust. Line 10: Is it a “bliss” or “woe” Line 11: Is it a “joy” or “dream” Ends with a couplet, to emphasize the anger by condemning lust to what leads men to hell.
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