Think of tone as the emotional thermometer for the poem and think of theme as the tiller that points your poem in a direction. Without tone, the poem is just words on paper, empty, cold, lifeless, and direct. read more
For example, if the theme of a poem was happiness, words like; warm, love, comfortable, and delight would come into play. Theme makes the writer adjust their vocabulary so as to better express the theme in the proper tone. read more