The poem is set in the narrator's house during the afternoon of the first few days of the month of October, when a blind piano tuner comes to fix the piano and after an afternoon filled with music the setting reaches the night time when everything is still and silent and the narrators cat quietly walks up to the piano and strikes one note which lingers on in the narrator's mind in the form of a dream. ... From there on the whole afternoon is absorbed in the appreciation of music and hours later when the poet is in his bed he hears his cat move about in the darkness and strike one no...

• Word Count: 1281
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Graduate