Good Bye By Chris Fourneir

The poems “If I Die Young” by The Band Perry and “Good-Bye” by Chris Fourneir are both talking about the death. In both poems, the speakers are using tones to make mood. Although they are presenting about the same topic, the tone and mood both poems are almost opposite in both poems. The tone of “If I Die Young” is optimistic and almost cheerful. When people die we sing a sad song to send them, however, the poem says “Send me away with the words of a love song” (4). This makes the poem very optimistic because the writer of the poem accept the death and thinking in very positive way about the death. On the other hand, “Good-Bye” is using depressing and dark tones. Like the most of people the speaker says “Because it will be hard…../Living