Updike’s poem “Player Piano”, is the relationship between the narrator, who is a piano player, and their fingers. Even if one does not play piano or have any musical experience, one can still understand the experience because Updike uses onomatopoeia and cacophonous diction. For example, Updike writes, “My stick fingers click with a snicker”, this one of Updike’s examples of onomatopoeia diction. The “click” and “snicker” in this line sound like the sounds they are describing and give life to the line, so that the reader can hear and see the narrator’s fingers playing the piano. This line shows the reader the playfulness of the fingers that play the piano by using “snicker”; and the “click” allows the readers hear the fingers touching the