The language a writer uses helps to create the tone of a work. This tone is the author’s attitude towards his or her subject matter. When reading for tone, consider not only language but also how the details, imagery, sentence structure, and literary choices lend insight into the author’s purpose and attitude. Being able to determine tone is an essential skill needed to fully comprehend a text. Here are just some of the many words one can use to describe an author’s tone: lighthearted, hopeful, enthusiastic, complimentary, confident, optimistic, elated, sympathetic, compassionate, proud, angry, disgusted, urgent, outraged, accusing, indignant, threatening, sarcastic, cynical, critical, satiric, condescending, mock-serious, taunting, somber, sad, disturbed, mournful, solemn, serious, apprehensive, concerned, hopeless, formal, objective, nostalgic, restrained, clinical, sentimental, detached, urgent, instructive, matter-of-fact, informative and authoritative Answer the question below based on a few lines of poetry with strong connotative diction from Dylan Thomas’s poem “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”: “Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”   What do the words “good night” connote?