Piano
Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; ( a)
Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see ( a)
A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings ( b)
And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings. ( b)
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vista: a view, range.
in the dusk: after the setting of the sun.
carrying me down to the years of my childhood.
hearing the notes of the piano.
touching the elegant feet of the mother placed on the pedal of the piano.
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In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song (a)
Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong (a)
To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside (b)
And hymns in the cosy parlour, the tinkling piano our guide. (b)
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Insidious- spreading gradually or without being noticed
Hymns- Song in praise of God
parlour-A room in a private house for sitting or entertaining visitors.
cosy- comfortable and safe
Though I am grown up, though I am matured now
the gradual mastery of the song
makes me or reminding of my childhood days at my maturity.
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So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamour (a)
With the great black piano appassionato. The glamour (a)
Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast (b)
Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past.(b)
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Clamour-_ to shout loudly in a confused way.
appassionato- a particular piece of music considered
by Beethoven to be his most tempestuous piano sonata
Glamour- attraction.
now he cannot shout with excitement as he did in his childhood days.
He liked a particular piece of music of Beethoven.
Sunshine or happiness of his days as a child
Even though he is grown up as a man physically and yet a child at heart.
he is unable to control his emotions and he cries thinking of the childhood good old days.
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The child mentioned is the poet himself.
He spent his Sundays singing hymns.
He is reminded on hearing the woman's song his childhood days.
He relished or enjoyed thinking of his childhood days.
rhyming scheme: aabb
Present tense is used in the poem more.
He enjoys his childhood days in manhood days or in the present days of maturity.
ONOMATOEPIC words: sounding similar to the sound described.
Tingling strings, Tinkling piano.
Alliteration: small, smiles, sings
Flood of remembrance-metaphor.
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The day was off and the became dusk.
Some lady is singing to the poet, while he was playing the piano.
He is reminded of his childhood memories.
His mother was playing the piano and he was sitting under the piano.
The boom of the tingling strings as he was pressing the small poised feet of his mother and her smile when she sang he is reminded.
The lady's song takes him back to the good old days.
The family sangs hymns when it was winter and it was cold outside especially on Sunday evenings.
The lady's song had no effect on him for he has drowned himself in the past memories and starts weeping for he is remembered of his past and his wanting to go back to those days again.
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