Vincent Van Gogh Fishing in the Spring, Pont de Clichy 1887

Edvard Munch The Scream (1893) Edvard Munch The Scream (1893)

What are the differences between these two Paintings?

TONE  The author’s attitude toward his/her material, the audience, or both: Sarcastic Sarcastic Business-like Business-like Excited Excited Somber Somber Humorous Humorous

Now let’s apply this to literature: Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step. The locust- trees were in bloom and the fragrance of the blossoms filled the air. Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above it, was green with vegetation and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful, and inviting. During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was-but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. spirit.