Friday, February 18, 2011

Cruise Scavenger Hunt List

Old Piano

1 / The piano is personified, the poet lends "a" soul "that does" shuddered over "and a" dark side ". Personification is developed in the following quatrain and the piano becomes a metaphor for "embittered misanthrope" and isolated.

2 / In the second quatrain, the poet expresses his longing: he remembers the "night" and that his mother was crying at the mention of this memory. The "night of the past" are associated with music of Liszt and Beethoven , itself responsible for melancholy.

3 / The parallelism of the last verse ("You lack an artist, I have the ideal") stresses that, like the piano, the poet suffers from a lack. If the piano does not play, because as a pianist, artist mourns the loss of an ideal that gives him the strength to create the music of the instrument thus symbolically refers to the creation of the poet.

4 / The poem ends with a question: "Who will be reborn, O deep distress, / From your keyboard funeral a triumphant concert?" With this question the poet wonders if the instrument can still play so if it even still be able to write.

5 / The term "dark", "embittered misanthrope", "weeping", "poor soul", "Missing", "deep distress" is a lexical field of melancholy.

6 / The tone of the text is romantic, it is a lyric poem that evokes a melancholy, somewhat similar to the "mal du siecle" suffered by the Romantic poets, the dream to reconnect with an "ideal" ("You lack an artist, I have the ideal.") is also characteristic the sensitivity of the romantic hero.

7 / The rhymes are embraced in the first quatrain, crossed into the second stanza, they are followed and embraced in the triplets. The fact that the second quatrain uses rhymes prevents regarded the sonnet as a regular sonnet.

8 / "When Liszt is sad and said dying Beethoven" is the subject CTC. Can be substituted with a gerund (present participle) " Lizst saying sad dying Beethoven."

9 / Relegated the show: detached epithet of "he" (the piano)
What I was playing my mother: Completion of the antecedent "night"
At these nights past: IOC dream.

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