Chapter 4 Musical Sound Devices

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seems to appear that there were these two guys who just had lots of fun with musical sound devices. In paragraph 4 makes it seem that these guys or whoever they were , were also playing dangerous with one another, because in the last sentence of paragraph 4 says, make two people fight on the top of a stairway and scratch each other's eyes in a clinch tumbling down the stairs. It seems like in this poem that there was commotion going on and lots of emotions. These emotions were being expressed through the sound of the instruments being played with. Through out the poem the focus is on :sadness ,happiness ,loneliness , and craziness to be free from some of the commotion and peaceful tones. The instruments basically represent the emotions we

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