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Metaphor
Explanation and Analysis—Orchestra of the Heart:
When Anna and Pino begin their romantic relationship, Pino is entirely absorbed with thoughts of Anna and falls deeply in love with her. To express Pino's romantic absorption, Sullivan crafts a metaphor for the way it feels when Anna kisses Pino:
Anna kissed him a fourth time. Pino thought he heard a woodwind join the strings vibrating in his chest, and his mind and body were reduced to one thing, to the music of Anna-Marta and nothing more.
In the passage above, Sullivan expresses the depth of Pino’s emotion with a metaphor, imagining Anna-Marta herself as a piece of music who lives within Pino’s orchestral-like body. Inside of Pino, readers learn that there figuratively lives a woodwind instrument and that there are “strings vibrating in his chest." Pino loves music and imagines music to be a part of his physical body. By comparing the movement of a human heart to the movement and output of a musical instrument, Sullivan demonstrates in a poetic way how Pino’s love for Anna completely absorbs his body and his senses. These depictions also contribute to the overall theme of music's power, consistently expressed throughout Beneath a Scarlet Sky during times of both passion and strife.
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