PIANO Flashcards
‘the insidious mastery’
The song has snuck up on him and taken over him
‘a woman is singing’
Soft sibilance
Peaceful
‘betrays me back’
Plosive alliteration
Negative connotations (traitor)
‘in the boom of the tingling strings’
Sensory language
Onomatopoeia
‘my manhood is cast’
Lost his manhood because he is crying
‘glamour’
Fairy magic
Dangerous attraction
Connotations of deceit, danger, attraction, fatal
‘with the great black appassionato.’
Hard caesura
Plosive sounds
Cacophony
Hard and unpleasant to say which shows his difficulty of expressing his emotions
‘black’
Negative connotations
Sadness and despair
‘betrays’
Doesn’t want to go back into his memories
Shows complexity of nostalgia
Antithesis of positives and negatives
‘I weep like a child for the past’
Weep childish connotations
Remembering has made him act like a child which is ‘weak’ (he crys)
Sad because he cannot go back
‘weeps… weep’
Polyptoton
Shows his extreme emotion
‘down in the flood of remembrance’
Metaphor/imagery
Flood connects with tears
Extreme emotion
Form?
Lyric poem (emotional and first person)
Structure?
Sounds like a piano as flows and enjambment
Makes it sound like music
Meter?
Dactylic meter - constant pace and regular rhythm like a song - memories flowing back
