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An Analysis of Updike's "Player Piano"

Evaluate the effectiveness of diction as an adjunct to meaning in John 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 "Pla ....

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.... and "din" are alliterative, and the suggestion is that the "din" of the piano broadcasts its sound far and wide. In line three of stanza two there is both internal rhyme and assonance in "man", "band", and "hand". Updike tells us that the piano has a sense of pride in its ability to produce its own music, unassisted by any human hand. Of course there is irony in this because it was a human who originally programmed the piano. The last two lines of the second stanza are extremely rhythmic, and closely imitate the sort of rhythm that comes from the piano as in the line: "The tones I tur ....

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