1. The Visitor by Gibbons Ruark
... comes to fix the piano and after an afternoon filled with music the setting reaches the night time when everything is still and silent and the narrators cat quietly walks up to the piano and strikes one note which lingers on in the narrator's mind in the form of a dream. One surprising thing ... things observable by the narrator. The visitor who is also the piano tuner is significant in repairing the musical atmosphere in the household such that even the cat evokes a musical response. The poet makes beautiful use of audio-visual imagery to convey a sensation of music and melody which is...
- Word Count: 1281
- Approx Pages: 5
- Grade Level: Graduate