The poem "starfish" by lorna dee cervantes. they were lovely in the quartz and jasper sand as if they had created terrariums with their bodies on purpose; adding sprigs of seaweed, seashells, whiye feathers, eel bones, miniature mussels, a fish jaw. hundreds; no- thousands of baby stars. we touched them, surprised to find them soft, pliant, almost living in their attitudes. we would dry them, arrange them, form seascapes, gathered what we could in the approaching darkness. then we left hundreds of thousands of flawless five-fingered specimens sprawled along he beach as far as we could see, all massed together: little martyrs, soldiers, artless suicides in lifelong liberation from the sea. so many splayed hands, the tide shoveled in. reread lines 1-15. how does the description of the "approaching darkness" change the tone of the poem? what happens to

The "approaching darkness" changes the tone of the poem as it illustrated the darker tone of the poem.

The tone of a poem refers to the attitude that can be felt in it. The tone of a poem is the attitude towards the audience. It can be humorous, playful, regretful, etc.

From the beginning of the poem, there was a cheerful and happy tone as everyone was happy. The approaching darkness then changes the tone of the poem imas it illustrated the darker tone of the poem.

In approaching darkness. then we left hundreds of thousands of flawless five-fingered specimens sprawled.

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In this poem, Lorna Dee Cervantes discusses how she found starfish in the beach and what she did with them. The beginning of the poem is cheerful and full of beautiful imagery. However, the lines: "We gathered what we could. In the approaching darkness" foreshadow the darker tone the poem will acquire.  The second part of the text becomes more sober and less cheerful, and it uses words such as "martyrs" and "artless suicides" that make you think the fate of the starfish was not a happy one after all.

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