Piano (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- First Published: 1918
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Children, Family or family life, Memory, Mothers, Parents and children, Singing or singers, Pianos or pianists, Nostalgia, Winter
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 mother’s 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...
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