Tapan Darji Assignment 3

1. The tone of "Piano" is of reminiscence and guilt. The tone is created through diction. "Vista of years" shows that the narrator is remembering the past. "Betray" shows guilt because the narrator wants that time back from his childhood to redo because he was "insidious" at the time and now he misses it. This is why the narrator "weeps." His life as an adult is "cast" and he wishes it was like his childhood.

2. I would most likely agree with the first quote by Lowell. Lowell's quote is most similar to my belief because I think that art is created when someone wants to express something. To create art, you have to want to express a feeling or idea. Without meaning, an artist's work is not art. That relates to Lowell because she said that man creates art to "express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in." So art has to have meaning for one to be able to express oneself.