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ballad of Pearl whitethorn Lee in Gwendolyn Brooks avenue in BronzevilleGwendolyn Brooks Ballad of Pearl May Lee came from her adjudge called Street in Bronzeville. This book exemplifies Brooks dual place in American literary works (Smith, 2). It is associated with Modernist poetry, as well as the Harlem Renaissance. This book is known for its theme of victimizing the poor, sable woman. Ballad of Pearl May Lee is a poem that uses greenback to represent the complex modality of the ballad. While fortify and mood argon often used interchangeably, there are differences even though they often work together in a poem. A poems mood refers to the atmosphere or state of mind that the poem takes on. This is often conveyed through the tone, which is the style or manner of expression through writing. In this poem, digest uses tone to enhance the mood. This paper will shed cloudless on the idea that the mood of the poem is affected by the tone in several ways in order to make the mood inconsistent. Some of the ways that tone does this is by several episodic shifts in the scene of the poem, the repetition of stanzas at the end of the poem, the use of diction, and the change in the vocalisers stance throughout the poem. These poetic techniques enhance the speakers current feeling of self-pity and revengeful satisfaction by her motley emotions associated with this reflection. To begin, the episodic shifts in scenes in this ballad enhance the speakers emotional confusion. Almost every stanza has its own time and place in the speakers memory, which sparks different emotions with each. For example, the first stanza is her memory of herself at her signboard and it has a mocking, carefree mood. She says, I cut my lungs with laughter, meaning that... ... was meant to serve as insight as to how Brooks used the tone to create a mood that was inconsistent with an overlying theme of self-pity. She has a way with words, and I feel that this ballad is ver y representative of her skill as a writer.Works CitedMootry, Maria K. Chocolate Mabbie and Pearl May Lee Gwendolyn Brooks and the Ballad Tradition. Vale Rutgers Univerisity Libraries. http//galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&OP=contains&locID=rutgers&srchtp.htmlSmith, Gary. Gwendolyn Brooks A Street in Bronzeville, the Harlem Renaissance and the Mythologies of Black Women. Vale Rutgers University Libraries. http//galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?locID=rutgers&frmhyp=1&srchtp=athr&c=2&.htmlSollors, Werner. An Anthology of Interracial Literature. Ballad of Pearl May Lee. New York University Press. 2004. p. 577-580.