Piano

Question 1

cosy atmosphere, in a restaurant concert, others with him but he is transported to his past, feels alone in his memory, feels she sings/speaks directly to him

Answer 1

Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me

Question 2

poet visualises the years of his life lined up like buildings on either side of a street, remembering the childhood Sundays he describes is like being led down this street

Answer 2

vista of years

Question 3

vibrant, life, strong memory, sound reverberates

Answer 3

boom of the tingling strings

Question 4

pleasant, warm, tender, cosy, intimate,

Answer 4

mother who smiles as she sings

Question 5

sinister - brings us to dark places, it is something he didn’t want to remember, painful, music can be uplifting or energising, but not in this instance (he was enjoying a nice night then upset), hes captivated/controlled by music

Answer 5

In spite of myself, the insidiuos mastery of song

Question 6

deeply affected, allure of the music, takes him somewhere he doesn’t want to go

Answer 6

Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong

Question 7

the living room

Answer 7

cosy parlour,

Question 8

onomatopoeia

Answer 8

the tinkling piano

Question 9

became a boy again, loss of self control, weeps for a time he cannot revisit, the Sundays spent with his mother,
distressed, feels it is unmanly show of grief, crying in public, feels weak, like a child

Answer 9

my manhood is cast

Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past