Poetry Review: Mood, theme, imagery

City Autumn By Joseph Moncure March
   The air breathes frost. A thin wind beats
Old dust and papers down gray streets
And blows brown leaves with curled-up edges
At frightened sparrows on window ledges.
What is the mood?

• joyful
• annoyed
• gloomy
• puzzled

The City is So Big
by Richard Garcia
I have seen machines eating houses
And stairways walk all by themselves
And elevator doors opening and closing And people disappear. 
What is the mood?

• fearful and confused
• jealous and annoyed
• heartbroken and bitter
• irritated and embarassed

Dreams, by Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
What is the mood?

• sorrowful
• irritated
• puzzled
• apprehensive

I Dream a World by Langston Hughes
A world I dream where black or white,
Whatever race you be,
Will share the bounties of the earth
And every man is free,
What is the mood?

• hopeful
• fearful
• agitated
• puzzled

Life Doesn't Frighten Me by Maya Angelou
Don’t show me frogs and snakes
And listen for my scream,
If I'm afraid at all
It’s only in my dreams.
What is the mood?

• confident
• frightened
• lonely
• melancholy

The free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wings
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.

• This stanza has a fearful mood
• This stanza has a baffled mood
• This stanza has a joyful mood
• This stanza has an irritated mood

The Caged Bird by Maya Angelou
But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
What is the mood?

• Joyful
• heartbroken
• embarassed
• pensive

• The mood is sorrowful
• the mood is fearful
• the mood is humorous
• the mood is apprehensive

The definition of mood is 

• the overall feelings or emotions in the writer.
• revising your writing so that it is free of errors.
• overall feelings or emotions that are created in the reader. 
• working with a partner to check your writing. 

Authors set a TONE or MOOD in literature by conveying an emotion or emotions through ________.

• space
• height
• words
• funny faces