What is the tone in this poem? (I think it's neutral but I can't tell) from The Land of Beginning Again
By Louisa Fletcher Tarkington
I wish there were some wonderful place, called the Land of Beginning Again, where all our mistakes and all our heartaches, and all our poor, selfish grieves could be dropped, like a shabby old coat, at the door, And never put on again. We would find the things we intended to do, But forgot and remembered too late little praises unspoken, little promises broken, And all of the thousand and one little duties neglected that might have perfected, the days of one less fortunate. So I wish that there were some wonderful place called the Land of Beginning Again, where all our mistakes and all our heartaches, and all our poor, selfish grieves could be dropped, like a ragged old coat, at the door, And never put on again.

A longing tone

Explanation:

I wish...

We would...

So I wish ...

the rhetoric device being used to persuade the audience is pathos.

to kill a mockingbird basically is about a lawyer who goes against everything in a racist society like at the time of this novel, to defend a black man accused of sexual abuse. in the bible there are cases like that of joseph, who was accused by the woman of potifar, for a crime similar to that of tim robbinson, of that novel (genesis 39: 1-20). at this point we see that god also provides the escape to joseph, who was accused unjustly, but in his time, and through his attitude, his faith was not shaken, and god provided the solution. the perspective of god also written in the bible and not pay evil with evil. (ephesians 4: 32, 1 thessalonians 5: 15, 1 peter 3: 9). atticus, the lawyer, demonstrated during this lee novel, empathy, love of neighbor, understood the situation of this accused man. he went against everything in that society, and stood in favor of that man, for the injustice committed. this shows the empathy, the love taught by christ, in some passages that speak of love and justice in the sermon of the beatitudes (especially verses 6 and 7 of matthew 5).