Piano - Summary

Piano

·        Theme:-

-         Nostalgia is the central idea of the poem "Piano".

-         It tells us memory is much sweeter then reality. It helps us to forget present reality.

-         This poem shows the relationship between past and present, memory and reality.

-         The poet remembers his childhood and forget the present reality.

·        Literal Comprehension:-

D.H. Lawrence, the famous Britist poet, mostly wrote about his childhood experience. This poem 'piano', he has presented the idea that memory or imagination is most powerful to forget the present reality.

            The poet is sitting with a women in a room at evening. The women is playing piano for the poet the tune of piano makes the poet remember his past childhood because his mother used to play piano in the past. He remembers those days he used to sit under the piano and his mother used to play and sing, smiling towards hm. He completely forgets his present because his sweet childhood memory. He remembered the evening when all his family members used to sit in a cozy parlor and his mother used to play piano. They used to sing hymns. The poet thinks that the music of that women is lamoures and he weeps like a child.

·        Interpretation:-

This poem tells us memory is much sweeter than reality when a man remembers his past happy days, he forgets the present difficult days music has the power to make us to remembers the happy past. In this poem, the poet remembers his mother and his childhood days when he listen the music of that women clamors, but the same music made him to remembers the past.

·        Critical Thinking:-

This poem shows the relationship between past and present, memory and reality But there are some issues which we couldn't accept of his poem. Man could remember his past but it is impossible to forget the present reality completely. Everybody should learn to live with present. How could a young man weep like a before a young women? Does his manhood allow his to do so? How could a sweet music become clamors? Sweet music is always better to listen.

·        Assilimilation:-

From this poem I realized that every people remember, their happy past and forget their present for some time like me. Nowadays when I listen the morning pray anywhere I remember my grandmother who used to pray when I was small child. Sometimes I remember those events when I hear the song again which would have played at the time when the event happened.