analysis piano.docx - D H Lawrenceu2019s Piano shows a man...

D. H. Lawrence’s Piano shows a man experiencing nostalgia as he listens to a woman singing which
reminds him of his childhood.
The poem starts with the man hearing the soft singing of a woman which takes him on a mental journey
down memory lane and he sees visions of his childhood flashing in front of him. The memory he focuses
on is that of a small child who is sitting beneath a grand piano as his mother plays it, taking his mother’s
elegant feet into his small hands and listening to the loud chords of music.
The man is reluctant to remember those days and be affected by them, but the song which the woman is
singing seems to have a slow subtle impact on him and despite his hesitance he gives in to his emotions
and yearns for the days of childhood: the cold Sunday evenings in winter when it used to now outside
and they, mother and son used to sit in the warm comfortable indoors and sing melodious hymns with
the help of the piano.
The man who was listening to the lady singing now thinks that it would be useless for her to continue on
as he is already so affected by his memories that he is just physically present, his mind elsewhere.
Without any thought of his adulthood, he bursts into tears remembering the blissful ignorance and
innocence of his infant years. He starts weeping, thus bridging the gap between his past and his present.