Summary and Analysis of the Poem: Piano
The poem may be trying to focus that music has power. None can keep themselves away from music. Music can touch our hearts and it can make us remember
Piano - D.H. Lawrence Literal Comprehension There are two persons in the poem: The poet and the woman. The woman is singing a song for the poet and also playing the piano. Her beautiful song suddenly takes the poet back down the vista of years. He reached in his childhood. He remembers his mother and childhood. He finds himself as a child sitting under the piano and pressing his mother's feet. His mother used to sing and play the piano. She would smile at him. It is his past and he is grown up now. His present is totally different from his past. The woman who is singing a song makes him remember the world Sunday evening. They used to sing hymns and the piano was their guide. When the poet starts thinking of his past, the present song of a woman turns to be useless. He doesn't want to listen to the song being sung by the woman. Her music and song is sweet but his remembrance of far sweeter than that. Though his past is sweet and pleasing, he can't get it back even if he pays m…