Piano

Question 1

Softly

Answer 1

Pleasant word, sets the mood of the poem

Question 2

A woman is Singing to me

Answer 2

Metaphor

Music takes him back to his memories

Question 3

Boom of the tingling

Answer 3

Onomatopoeia and oxymoron

Noises metaphorically represent what a mother should be- with the power to protect and a soft maternal nature

Question 4

Insidious

Betrays me back

Answer 4

The music he is listening to and thought was pleasant is betraying him because it takes him back to a bad memory

Question 5

Winter outside

cozy parolr

Answer 5

Metaphor
Inside represents the warmth/ happiness and safety of childhood life and outside represents the harshness of being an adult/ man- he now had to protect others rather than being protected him self

Question 6

He speaks temporarily in the third person to show

Answer 6

That he is a different person now and he has changed, he is looking back and seeing himself as a boy and does not Brie that child to be the adult he now is.

Question 7

My manhood is cast down

Answer 7

Personification shows that he feels he Is becoming emasculated by crying, as it is often seen as weak or feminine to cry

Question 8

Musical references ‘tinkiling’ ‘appassionato’ ‘clamor’

Answer 8

Adds to the imagery of the poem and expresses the music further by making it appear beautiful and emotional