The Poem

Piano is a lyric poem reflecting the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker as he listens at dusk to a woman singing a song that brings back childhood memories of sitting at his mothers feet while she played the piano. It is a short poem of twelve lines divided into three quatrains, rhymed aabb. The poem contains vivid images, and specific and concrete details provide a clear embodiment of his memory. In the first stanza, a woman is singing softly to the speaker. The song takes him in memory back to his childhood, where he sees a child sitting... The Form: The poem is written a simple lyric composed in three stanzas each consists of 4 lines of verse. It divided into inside division in which the four line has an inside image in each stanza. The present situation dominates the first two lines of each stanza. Childhood memories dominates intrude in the last two lines third and fourth of each stanza.

... that every two lines rhyme. The poem is structured so that in each of the three stanza the author describes an image of the present in the first two lines, and then the last two lines are spent describing his comfortable past. The second line of each stanza speaks of the vehicle that sends him back to the past while the third line of each stanza shows his increasing distress. In the first stanza it's the singing woman that takes him "down the vista of years." Next, the song takes him to "the old Sunday evenings at home." Finally, the "great black piano" reminds him of the past. The continuing conflict of the speaker's emotions is

The passing of time in a person's life is filled with many different stages. The poem "Piano" by D.H. Lawrence is a complicated example of how a poet might think. The speaker in "Piano" is proud to be a full grown man, yet he loves remembering his happy childhood; his nostalgic attitude causes him to feel guilty as if he had betrayed his present state of being. Through effective imagery, Lawrence is able (to describe an image) to help the reader understand the speaker's nostalgic attitude. The diction and tone used in this poem reveal the speaker's struggle as his feelings mix between his desire to be a man and his desire to return to his childhood. The rhyme and structure of the poem keep ... .. is compared to a vista, which usually means a view across a landscape. There is also Personification as the piano is compared to a guide. Also contains a paradox, with ambiguity throughout the poem. The use of Alliteration of the sound b in betrays me back , and the repeating p sound in the fourth line of the first stanza. The poem contains a rhyming scheme, using couplets, aa, bb, cc, dd, ee, ff, the first and second lines rhyme in each stanza, the third and fourth lines rhyme in each stanza. This suggests expressing himself in a orderly fashion or a rhyming way, this seems to go against the way of the poem's structure, its very

D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), English novelist, storywriter, critic, poet and painter, one of the greatest figures in 20th-century English literature. "Snake" and "How Beastly the Bourgeoisie is" are probably his most anthologized poems. David Herbert Lawrence was born on September 11, 1885, in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, central England. He was the fourth child of a struggling coal miner who was a heavy drinker. His mother was a former schoolteacher, greatly superior in education to her husband. Lawrence's childhood was dominated by poverty and friction between his parents. He was educated at Nottingham High School, to which he had won a scholarship. He worked as a clerk in a surgical appliance factory and then for four years as a pupil-teacher. After studies at Nottingham University, Lawrence matriculated at 22 and briefly pursued a teaching career. Lawrence's mother died in 1910; he helped her die by giving her an overdose of sleeping medicine. In 1909, a number of Lawrence's poems were published by Ford Max Ford in the English Review. The appearance of his first novel, The White Peacock(1911), launched Lawrence into a writing career. In 1912 he met Frieda von Richthofen, the professor Ernest Weekly's wife and fell in love with her. Frieda left her husband and three children, and they eloped to Bavaria. Lawrence's novel Sons and Lovers appeared in 1913 and was based on his childhood . In 1914 Lawrence married Frieda von Richthofen, and traveled with her in several countries. Lawrence's fourth novel, The Rainbow (1915), was about two sisters growing up in the north of England. Lawrence started to write The Lost

Girl in Italy. He dropped the novel for some years and rewrote the story in an old Sicilian farmhouse near Taormina in 1920. uring the First World War Lawrence and his wife were unable to obtain passports and were targets of constant harassment from the authorities. They were accused of spying for the Germans and officially expelled from Cornwall in 1917. The Lawrences were not permitted to emigrate until 1919, when their years of wandering began. Lawrence's best known work is Lady Chatterly's Lover, first published privately in Florence in 1928. It tells of the love affair between a wealthy, married woman, and a man who works on her husband's estate. The book was banned for a time in both UK and the US as pornographic. Lawrence's other novels from the 1920s include Women In Love (1920), a sequel to The Rainbow. Aaron's Rod (1922) shows the influence of Nietzsche, and in Kangaroo (1923) Lawrence expressed his own idea of a 'superman'. The Plumed Serpent (1926) was a vivid evocation of Mexico and its ancient Aztec religion. The Man Who Died (1929), is a bold story of Christ's Resurrection. Lawrence's non-fiction works include Movements In European History(1921), Psychoanalysis And The Unconscious (1922) and Studies In Classic American Literature (1923). D.H. Lawrence died in Vence, France on March 2, 1930. He also gained posthumous renown for his expressionistic paintings completed in the 1920s. The above biography is copyrighted. Do not republish it without permission.

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It helps to post a link to the poem or include the words. Sometimes you have to read between the lines and make an educated guess on older poetry. When the poet says "a mother" he really means "my mother." So while he is listening to this accomplished singer accompanied by piano, he is actually reminded of the times he sat under the piano while his own mother is singing and playing the piano. The majority of mothers do not sing like professional singers, but they often have a sweet, gentle quality that appeals to their own children or other children. The speaker in the poem notices the difference in that performing quality and states that the singer's style seems more "vain" as compared to his own mother's style. In other words, professional singers are often if not always singing for attention and praise, rather than just for the sake of music itself. A mother might be singing or playing piano just to help her child develop appreciation for the way music sounds, and not for any sort of applause. The speaker in the poem may even have lost his mother, as he weeps, or cries like a child for the past. That is not 100% definite, though. The speaker may just be having an emotional, sentimental moment. The older a person gets, the more he or she may miss things from their childhood. I know I have been looking for old children's books in the past year which I used to read. It is a natural thing for people to do when they grow up. It's part of what makes us human-to remember what has happened in our lives. Hope this helps. Source(s): Piano teaching experience