newhowl5 Aug 2002

Authors compassion for his subject is undermined by his distance from subject (use of the impresonal "he", "his", lack of insight) and the cliched language ("sweet melodies", "tales of loneliness", "like a sage", "dreams of a better day"). Also, opening line is not clear: the radio "cries out of love and tenderness". Either the radio is being given the emotions of love and tenderness or the sentence is wrong and should read "the radio cries out love and tenderness".