Poetry Across Time - Relationships - Harmonium
- Created by: Sofalof
- Created on: 02-11-12 10:51
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- Harmonium
- 'mine, for a song'
- Not worth very much. Irony because the purpose of the harmonium is to make music
- 2nd stanza
- The sun ages things
- The harmonium is personified (as an old man)
- Sibilance
- Holy and peaceful
- Soft sound
- Lifts mood
- 3rd stanza
- Large part of their life
- 'still struck a chord'
- He's grown up in the church
- Either the harmonium can still play a chord or it moves him
- 'father and son'
- Passed on through generations (sense of tradition)
- 'smoker's fingers and dottled thumbs'
- Old
- Modern poem
- Down to earth and unromantic
- Use of pronouns
- Casual tone
- Line 4
- Lines 22-25
- Matter of fact
- 4th stanza
- Communication skills aren't good
- It's how he is-he can't change it
- Avoids the subject of death
- Lines 26-27
- He doesn't know what to say
- They love each other but can't express it
- He doesn't know what to say
- 'starved of breath'
- Could be because the harmonium is heavy
- Language
- Figurative
- Personification
- Religious
- 'mine, for a song'
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