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PIANO (Exposition (informative) Elements (Historical background of the…
PIANO
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Vocabulary
By using words like “cozy” and “tinkling piano” and “flood of remembrance” and “softly” and “with winter outside”, D.H. Lawrence paints this beautiful scene of a comfortable childhood. It makes the piano seem more inviting. Also, through the use of trochaic meter and concrete imagery, he allows the reader to feel like they are with him, listening to the music and slipping into the past.
Language Control
Capitalization
In this lyrical poem, the beginning of each verse started with a capital letter (which indicates no literary convenience whatsoever). The noun "Sunday" was capitalized.
Punctuation
The poem proceeded with the tale of the poet's previous experiences mainly by indicative punctuation. Full stops were used to divide a continuous memory into separate segments of a
poem. Commas were strongly used and emphasized in the poem, aiding in the description of a place or time. A semicolon was present in "Piano" to distinguish between two closely related independent clauses
Grammar
Grammatical errors do not exist in this poem. An interesting verse with a debatable grammatical accuracy is "The glamour Of childish days is upon me"
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Poem's summary
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Paraphrasing:
Softly, at sunset, a woman sings to me. I think back many years until I see a child playing under a piano with all of its strings, pressing the feet of a mother who is smiling and singing. The song takes me back (against my will) to Sundays at my house when it was winter and the songs that would fill the home. Now, it is useless for the singer to sing with the passionate piano. The glamour of my childhood is upon me and I weep as I miss my childhood.
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Figurative Language
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Simile
"Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past."
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Sound devices
The word "piano" was mentioned twice throughout the poem. Which is an indication to the importance of the word and how does the poem revolves around it.
A rhyme scheme of AABBCCDDEEFF was manifested in the poem. Example: "strings/sings - song/belong - outside/guide - clamour/glamour"
"small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings." and "Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong" are paramount implications to the repetition of the letters S and B in the poet's attempt to achieve musical significance.
The expression "boom of the tingling strings" suggest the poet's remembrance and reference to the sound of the piano strings, and how much he miss hearing them.
"A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings " the emphasis of teh letter i is explicitly evident.
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