Piano Flashcards
Softly in the dusk
Sibilance and adverb soft sounds like a woman singing
Singing
Present tense makes it vivid for reader
Vista of years
Noun a wide view, imagery of him back in the day into distant childhood
A child
Indefinite Article, he’s observing himself asa child in memory
Under the piano
Prepositional, they’re close and symbolises his mother’s protection. His mum was a dominant figure
Boom of the tingly strings
Onomatopoeia and sensory imagery makes it seem vivid for reader
Who smiles as she sings,
Sibilance soothing and gentle mood
In spite of myself
Sibilance, becomes harsher. He doesn’t want to be transported back to his memories.
Insidious
Adjective, implies memories are harmful and upsetting
Betrays me back
He doesn’t want to remember as it upsets him Tik much but his memory is too strong
Heart of me weeps
Personification, grief for past and sad nostalgia
Tinkling piano out guide
Piano sound guides him through life transporting him back to his childhood and is the catalyst for his memories
Vain
Piano music has already transported him back in time, he cannot change the past
Glamour
Noun, speaker views childhood idealistically
Is upon me,
Caesura important, emphasises contrast of present and past, women singing with him form his childhood.
Manhood cast down
He thinks that crying is childish and emasculated. As when the play was written it was not manly to cry it’s almost like he despises himself for crying weakly
Flood of remembrance
Metaphor, all his memories overwhelm him in a flood submerging him in the past.
Rhyme scheme
Rhyming couplets, often used in love poems
Reflects he loves his mother and his close bond with her as a child
