An Analysis Of Updike's "Player Piano"
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Evaluate the effectiveness of diction as an adjunct to meaning in John
Updike's "Player Piano".
In "Player Piano", John Updike uses personification to give life to
a ‘unhuman' piano. By using diction to communicate his ideas, he
effectively allows the reader to explore the psyche of a "Player Pi ....
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.... feeling that the piano is alive, further adding to the effect of
personification in this poem. In the last line of the first stanza, there
is consonance in "these", "keys", and "melodies". The repeat of the smooth
"s" sound in these three consecutive words evokes a feeling of rhythm or
harmony - pleasant sounds from the player piano.
The next stanza starts with an internal rhyme: "My paper can caper".
The simple rhyme suggests that the paper can leap and jump about like a
child. The connotat ....
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