1. The Visitor by Gibbons Ruark
... is written in such a manner that it has a rhythmic flow. The poet deftly analyses the themes of music and individual reaction to music in the poem. The poem is set in the narrator's house during the afternoon of the first few days of the month of October, when a blind piano tuner 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 ... ...
- Word Count: 1281
- Approx Pages: 5
- Grade Level: Graduate