Ben Cheng Mrs. Kirkeby English II, Period 1 12 March 2013 2. D.

H Lawrence is a storywriter, novelist, poet, critic, painter, as well as a teacher. His mother was a teacher as well, being much more educated than her husband. There was always distraught in Lawrences childhood as he was the fourth born child of a coal miner and a teacher, there always seemed to be conflict between his parents; he favored his mother. His family was constantly eye to eye with poverty. Despite his rough childhood, Lawrence grew up to be a writer that wrote regarding relationships between the two genders and how nature interacts with humans. He ended up being one of the greatest English literature figures of the 1900s. As a result to his closure with his mother, he ended up writing several poems regarding their relationship, such as Piano. 3. I believe the poet chose Piano as the title as the story itself is talks about his experience with his mother at the piano, the piano is the centerpiece in which he builds this story around. 4. Piano is a narrative poem in which the speaker goes through a nostalgic trance and reminisces a piece of his childhood with his mother. The speaker starts off in a place where a supposedly wonderful singer is doing a solo which sends him into a trance that takes him back to an old memory at home with his mother. The setting at home takes place during Sunday Evenings, during the winter, and the music in it brings a cosy feeling. The characters include a mother, which I believe is a well-versed pianist, the speaker in the form of a child, and a singer. 5. The poem is divided into three stanzas, all of equal length. The poem itself totals up to a number of twelve lines. Each stanza rapidly dropping the writer in a deeper and more entranced state as the music becomes more passionate. 6. Sight and sound dominate throughout the poem. In the first stanza the words softly and smile set a romantic situation up, while boom shows off some of its onomonopia. In the first stanza, boom is used to suggest the level of sound, but then in the third stanza the words appassionato and clamour describes how the sound level elevates. 7. The poet compares himself with a child at the end of the story. The piano is the embodiment of a guide. 8. The poem follows a simple AABBCCDD rhyme scheme. None of the stanzas seem to have an apparent characteristics to set them apart from one another. Each line ranges between thirteen and nineteen syllables. Each line ends with a rhyme focusing on a vowl sound, such as me, see, song, belong. 9. The poem itself sets a romantic and warm atmosphere in the opening line. The words parlour and hymns suggest how the times were older. In the last stanza, the words flood and weep set a sad

environment. The theme in the poem I believe is memory, as the speaker becomes more and more lost in the trance as the music becomes more powerful. 10. Piano saddens me to a degree. It reminds me of the times when I used to get along with my mother.