Harmonium Analysis
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- Created on: 02-05-16 14:24
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- Harmonium
- Up and down family relationship
- Has an erratic structure
- Theme of death
- "Next box I'll shoulder...his own dead weight"
- Joking, father acknowledging his own mortality
- Shows their seperation
- "Next box I'll shoulder...his own dead weight"
- The harmonium is given human qualities.
- Represents the father
- "Yellowed the fingernails" Smokers fingers
- Represents the father
- "For a song" Pun, means cheap
- Imagery
- "Sunlight, through stained glass" Positive effect on windows, negative effect on harmonium
- "Holes were worn" Dull image to match harmoniums appearance
- "Gathering dust" Tells us what is going on
- "Hummed harmonics" despite it being worn out, it still has value
- Casual Language, trying to make scene more relatable
- Theme of memories
- "For a hundred years that organ had stood"
- "Where father and son"
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