Summary Of The Poem Piano

D.H. Lawrence’s poem the, “Piano” allows readers to look into the author’s life sharing his memories from his childhood. Some people who read this poem will think that the poem is mainly about the author underneath the piano as his mother sings and plays beautiful music. And you would be right to think that because that is what the poem “Piano” is about. But there is so much more within this poem besides that obvious factor. Behind the scenes of the poem is the bonding of a mother and her son through an activity that they both enjoy and look forward to doing. It is their way of connecting and growing closer together which in return strengthens their relationship between each other. In the beginning of the poem, “Softly, in the dusk, a woman …show more content…
“In spite of myself, the insidious master of song/ Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong” (5-6). This memory is too strong for the author to hold in any longer. The singing of the two woman that are in his mind are just causing him to breakdown emotionally. He wants to go back to those good times that he had with his Mom but it is just not physically possible. He is stuck in the present and has to let this memory remain a memory. There is evidence in the poem of times they spent together, “To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside/ And hymns in the cozy parlor, the tinkling piano our guide” (7-8). These lines show that the time mentioned above when his mother played was not just a one-time thing. But that it had happened numerous times throughout the year. This was a way that made him feel connected to his Mom in a unique way. No matter what the condition of the weather was outside the playing of the piano always happened. The reader can infer that it was their own small way of bonding together as mother and son. From reading the poem it is easy to tell that this memory must have meant a lot to the author because he knows exactly the time period of when his mother played the …show more content…
Readers can tell from this that the author is happier when he was a kid compared to his emotional state when he is an adult. In the OED dictionary remembrance means to, “The memory (†or thought) which a person has of a thing or person; the act or fact of remembering a thing or person” (OED). Which relates to the poem when it talks about remembering the past. So, within the last line the memory he has is overwhelming his mind as he gets full of all these emotions of the past. It sort of becomes too much for the author to handle all at once. The emotions he feels are too much for him that he even wishes to return to the past when those good time occurred.
The poem, “Piano” by D.H. Lawrence is based on a memory from the author’s childhood that means a great deal to him. Listening to his Mom play the piano made him feel closer to her. Especially since they spent time with the piano several times together because they just enjoyed it that much. It is not a surprise at all that the author cries like he does when he remembers such a powerful and strong memory such as this. The fact that he wants to go back to it makes sense, now that he is a grown man that sacred time he spent with his mom when he was a kid now ceases to