Beethoven Line by Line Explanation: ISC Rhapsody Workbook Solutions Class 12

Beethoven Line by Line Explanation: ISC Rhapsody Workbook Solutions Class 12. Stanza wise Explanations in very simple and easy language so that student can grasp the all stanza easily to prepare the poem in effective way. Visit official website CISCE for detail information about ISC Board Class-12 English.

Beethoven Stanza Wise Explanation: ISC Rhapsody Workbook Solutions Class 12- Shane Koyczan

Board	ISC
Publications	Evergreen Publications
Subject	English
Class	12
Book Name	Rhapsody (A collection of ISC Poem )
Chapter	Beethoven
Writer	Shane Koyczan
Topics	Line by Line Explanation

Stanza Wise Explanations of Beethoven ISC Rhapsody Poem

Listen. His father made a habit out of hitting him

Explanation:  The word Listen is for reader to deeply and attentively hear and absorb the emotional essence of Beethoven’s music. Beethoven’s father  regularly scolded him, violently striking and beating the young Beethoven on a habitual basis expressing pain in Beethoven’s childhood home.

See, some men drink, some men yell, some men hit their children

Explanation: In this stnza The speaker expressing that how some worried fathersscolding with anger or frustration turn to their child from a lazy one to ginius one in most of the family.

This man did it all because I guess all men want their boys to be geniuses.

Explanation: As  per writer opinin Beethoven’s father was so extremely torturing because he want ambitions and skill  for his son to become a musical genius. The father behavior in violence and verbal attacks for goodness of son.

Beethoven. Little boy living in a house where a name meant nothing

Explanation: “Beethoven” feels helpless boy living in a home where his identity, self-worth, and humanity were completely not honourable and minimised. Beethoven was never praises by his father and always discourage.

Living in a house where mercy had to be earned through each perfect note tumbling up through the roof to tickle the toes of angels who’s harps couldn’t hold half the passion that was held in the hands of a young boy who was hard of hearing.

Explanation: Beethoven had got  small moments of conditional mercy or love from his father side due to playing piano with not accuracy The musical notes are rising up through the roof of the house, which escaping to the heavens where they delightfully roll down the toes of angels playing ethereal harps. The speaker imagines even the angelic harps cannot capture half the raw human passion infused in the music young Beethoven produces, which pours from his talented hands. It is also revealed Beethoven was losing his hearing capacity

Beethoven. Who heard his father’s anthem every time he put finger to ivory it was not good enough.

Explanation: Whenever speaker attempted to play piano, the response of his angry father declaring that his effort was lesser and “not good enough” played in Beethoven’s mind, like a regular anthem or scolding. Beethoven constantly faced impossible to play the music well.

So he played slowly. Not good enough. So he played softly. Not good enough. So he played strongly. Not good enough.

Explanation: Beethoven play in all possible way such that – playing thoughtfully slow, gently soft, or boldly strong even his father’s response as usual “Not good enough,” and did not pleased.

And when he could play no more and his fingers cramped up like the gnarled roots of tree trunks it was NOT GOOD ENOUGH

Explanation: Beethoven has practice more and more unless his fingers cease up in painful cramps, with muscles became like the twisted gnarled roots of a ancient trees, but his father’s voice still as NOT GOOD ENOUGH. This show the extreme, pressure Beethoven has faced by his father to do well.

Beethoven. A musician without his most precious tool: his eardrums could no longer pound out rhythms for the symphonies playing in his mind

Explanation: the musician Beethoven  has sacrifices his most essential, organ, ears and ability to hear. As Beethoven became deaf, he could no longer hear the symphonic music in his creative imagination of music.

He couldn’t hear the audience’s clapping couldn’t hear the people loving him couldn’t hear the women in the front row whispering Beethoven

Explanation: Now Beethoven’s deafness also effected experiencing the hearing of praise, reaction, clapping or whispering words of lady sitting in front row.

As they let the music invade their nervous system like an Armada marching through firing canon balls detonating every molecule in their body into explosions of heavenly sensation

Explanation: This stanza uses clearly sensory imagery to dramatically depict how Beethoven’s music entered his listeners’ bodies with overwhelming immersive power. The sounds wash over their nervous system like an invading naval Armada, firing volleys of cannonballs that enter within the body, bombarding every molecule in explosions of joyful sensation.

Each note leaving track marks over every inch of that body making them ache for one more hit. He was an addiction.

Explanation: Each music leaving a mark on the audience body. His music is making audictions

And Kings, Queens, it didn’t matter The man got down on his knees for no one, but amputated the legs of his piano so he could feel the vibrations through the floor The man got down on his knees for music.

Explanation: Beethoven refused to bow down in deference to human kings or queens. Yet he dramatically bowed himself solely for the goddess Music, even going so far as to amputate the legs of his own piano in order to press his body closer to the floor and feel the vibrations of the notes.

And when the orchestra played his symphonies it was the echoes of his father’s anthem repeating itself like a broken record, a broken record It was not good enough.

Explanation: Even when played by a orchestra, Beethoven  still only heard the repeating of his father’s voice that his ambitious sound were never good enough, like the bullet needle of a damaged record player.

So they played slowly. Not good enough. So they played softly. Not good enough. So they played strongly NOT GOOD ENOUGH.

Explanation: Orchestra played in all type mode some time slow and some time soft but father respoded as earlier NOT GOOD ENOUGH Therefore they played strongly at last even father reponse was same.

So they tried to mock the man, make fun of the madness by mimicking the movements, holding their bows a quarter of an inch above the strings not making a sound. It was perfect.

Explanation: the orchestra musicians jokingly express their physical playing motions while deliberately holding their bows just slightly above the string instruments without actually touching bow to string. This creates no real audible music, to Beethoven in his almost total deafness, this silent mocking was paradoxically perfect music.

You see the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams.

Explanation: Beethoven explains that deaf people have a near and dear relationship with silence unknown to the hearing. Silence is constantly present for them, a companion of their dreams at night.

And the musicians turn to one another not knowing what to make of the man trying to calculate the distance between madness and genius, realising that Beethoven’s musical measurements could take you the distances reaching past the Towers of Babylon,

Explanation: The orchestra musicians exchange querry at a glances, not knowing how to  categorise this man Beethoven. They ponder whether he has slipped into actual madness or remains an unfathomable genius. The musicians realise that Beethoven’s musical imagination reaches a long distances far beyond ordinary human limits, calculating lengths exceeding earthly measurements.

turning solar systems into cymbals that crash together, causing comets to collide, creating crescendos that were so loud they shook the constellations until the stars began to fall from the sky and it looked like the entire universe had begun to cry,

Explanation: Beethoven’s music takes on special power and scale in which the whole solar systems becoming crashing symbols, comets collide together to create sky cosmic volume increasement that shake entire constellations until stars are loose, falling from the heavens like luminous tears weeping through the celestial body.

Distance must be an illusion. The man MUST be a genius

Explanation: Since Beethoven’s musical imagination can measure the distances, the musicians conclude that terrestrial distance itself must be an illusion. With a scope of such magnitude Beethoven’s status as a genius is confirmed.

Beethoven. His thoughts moving at the speed of sound. Transforming emotion into music.

Explanation: Beethoven’s thought is at surprising velocity, faster than the speed of sound, able to transform  human emotion into musical.

In a moment it was like a tangible thing, which could touch it. Like for the first time we could watch love and hate dance together in a waltz of such precision and beauty that we finally understood that history wasn’t important

Explanation: When hearing Beethoven’s music, joy becomes nearly a, physical substance that can be felt and touched. Love and hate are dancing together with graceful splendour. This makes listeners realise for the first time that historical are not important

To know the man all we ever had to do was Listen.

Explanation: In last line line declares that to truly know Beethoven as a man, all that is needed is to deeply and carefully hear to his music.

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