In Emily Dickinson's poem "He ate and drank the Precious
words", the tone of the poem is brought forth by the message of the
poem.
Mood is defined as by the emotion the text brings out
in a reader. Therefore, the mood of a poem can change from reader to reader. This
happens because no reader is the same person, with the same personal history, and the
same emotions.
Therefore, the answer to the question will
reflect what I believe to be the mood of the poem based upon my subjective
thought.
The mood of the poem is one of elation (or
happiness). The book that the man reads brings him to a metaphoric intoxication. It is
through this 'drunkeness' that the man is able to forget his past and current problems.
The book (which many have assumed to be either the Bible, or a text similar to the
Bible) allows the man to find a new happiness:
Was but a book. What
liberty
A loosened spirit
brings!
The mood is simply
established, for me as the reader, through the recognition that one can find true
happiness and forgiveness somewhere.
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