Piano Flashcards
‘Softly…Dusk…Singing’
Sibilance shows the softness of the mother’s care to him. It also suggests a peaceful atmosphere.
‘taking me back down the vista of years…’
The dactylic meter shows the power of music as it made him relive his childhood memories. the enjambment of this sentence shows how fast his childhood memories have appeared.
‘Boom…Tingling’
Onomatoepia shows the power of music and how it controls his mind
‘Sitting under the piano’
Shows the comfort and safety he feels being surrounded by the piano
‘pressing the small, poised feet’
This shows the loving relationship he had with his mother creating sympathy in the reader.
‘heart’ and ‘weeps’
The poet personifies his heart to show how music strikes a powerful connection with him and emphasises his sadness.
‘tinkling piano our guide’
The onomatoepia and personification emphasises a gentle and simple life, but also safety and security.
‘piano apassionato’
This assonance and alliteration emphasise his passion for music
‘Cast-Down’
Enjambment suggests that his adult self has been overpowered by them
‘flood of remembrance’
This metaphor creates an image of the writer’s emotions and feeling drowning and overwhelming him.
‘I weep like a child for the past’
The simile shows that he now understands he has become a man, however, although he can cry like a child he can’t be a child again.
Each quatrain consists of 2 rhyming couplets
this could represent the tune played on the piano by his mother
The irregular meter suggests…
The struggles to suppress his memories with his mom and the wave of emotions.
