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Piano Questions and Answers

Poert exercise

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QUESTION 3 – SEEN POEM

Refer to TEXT A below and answer the following questions.

Piano D. H. Lawrence

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


Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see
A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings. 4

In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song


Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong
To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside
And hymns in the cosy parlour, the tinkling piano our guide. 8

So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamour


With the great black piano appassionato. The glamour
Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast
Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past . 12

3.1 Who is the “woman…singing” in line 1 of the poem? (1)

3.2 What does the poet mean by “taking me back down the vista of years”? (1)

3.3 True or false? Explain your answer and include a quote from the poem which proves it.
The speaker is sad about the past, as it is not a good memory. (3)

3.4 In stanza 3 the speaker says, “I weep like a child”. Quote another phrase from stanza 3
which tells us that the speaker is crying. (1)

3.5 Which one of the following words best describes the tone of the poem? Explain your choice.

a. depressed
b. nostalgic
c. childlike (2)

3.6 How does the rhythm and rhyme of the poem suit the content of the poem? (2)
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QUESTION 3 – SEEN POEM


Refer to TEXT A below and answer the following questions.

3.1 Who is the “woman…singing” in line 1 of the poem? (1)


A singer at a concert perhaps. Any answer than indicates it is not his mother.

3.2 What does the poet mean by “taking me back down the vista of years”? (1)
Making him remember, bringing back memories of the past.

3.3 True or false? Explain your answer and include a quote from the poem which proves it.
The speaker is sad about the past, as it is not a good memory. (3)
False. He is not sad. He remembers the past with joy and wants to be able to go back
and relive the memories. “Weeps to belong.”

3.4 In stanza 3 the speaker says, “I weep like a child”. Quote another phrase from stanza 3
which tells us that the speaker is crying. (1)
“flood of remembrance”

3.5 Which one of the following words best describes the tone of the poem? Explain your choice.
a. depressed
b. nostalgic
c. childlike (2)
He looks back at the past and remembers how wonderful it was.

3.6 How does the rhythm and rhyme of the poem suit the content of the poem? (2)
The poem is about someone singing. The regular and rhythm and rhyme suggest a
lyrical poem, like a song.
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