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The tone of this poem might best be described as rebellious.

The speaker does not want his father to simply "give in" to death. What does the speaker say about wise men? That they know that dark is right What does the speaker say about good men? That they cry about the things they did wrong What does the speaker say about wild men? That they live how they want and when death comes it is too late Romantic poets artists of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries who sought greater personal freedom from the strict rules and literary forms of the eighteenth-century neoclassicists the Romantics preferred emotional and imaginative expression to rational analysis tone the attitude of the writer toward the topic or subject The speaker's main point in the poem is to encourage his father to embrace life for as long as possible.