Explain what the first stanza does and what picture is presented through the carefully selected words.
- 25 Lines or Fewer
- Piano by D. H. Lawrence
Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see
A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.
In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song
Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong
To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside
And hymns in the cosy parlour, the tinkling piano our guide.
So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamour
With the great black piano appassionato. The glamour
Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast
Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past.
Answer each question in complete sentences, using supportive details.
- Explain what the first stanza does and what picture is presented through the carefully selected words.
- Explain what the second stanza describes the memory and enriches the impact of it for the reader.
- Explain the last stanza in its sudden change of mood and the meaning of Lawrence use of the word “glamour”.
- From the works we have covered, select one and explain how it connects to “Piano”.
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