The Guitarist Tunes Up Analysis

This poem is a shorty, but it packs a pretty good metrical punch. It makes sense that form and meter are a big deal in this one since there's a reference to music right there in the title. Form and...

Since "The Guitarist Tunes Up" is only 8 lines long, we don't get to spend much time with the speaker. Still, we're able to get some sense of who's talking in this one.Phrases like "attentive court...

Cornford doesn't give us much to go on in terms of the setting in this one. With only eight lines, we're lucky to have a poem at all. Still, the content does give us kind of an indoor feeling with...

With musical references right there in the title, it shouldn't come as a surprise that "The Guitarist Tunes Up" sounds kind of music-y. This musical quality is due in part to those strong end rhyme...

The title of a poem often has a great deal to do with how we read it, and that's certainly the case with Cornford's "The Guitarist Tunes Up."The title of this one gets us thinking about musicians,...

Many of Cornford's poems are on the short side, and they are often observational, commenting on the world she sees around her. Her poems are filled with natural imagery: birds, trees, animals, flow...

If you are looking for an intense, life and death poetry trek, "The Guitarist Tunes Up" probably won't do the trick. This poem is more along the lines of strolling barefoot through a meadow. Go ahe...

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This one doesn't quite make it to racy, but if you use your imagination it seems to be heading in that direction.