Analysis Of The Poem Piano - 979 Words

D. H. Lawrence s poem Piano shows the power of both music and memories. The poem was published in 1918 after his mother s death in 1910. This lyric poem takes a journey through the feelings Lawrence has when listening to a song that surfaces memories of his childhood. The title is fitting because the piano serves as a catalyst in both the present and the past to guide the speaker. The title word piano is used in each quatrain and progressively becomes more imposing in context. In the first quatrain a child sits under the piano, then the piano serves as a guide, and finally in the last quatrain it is expressed as the great black piano. This shows how the music and the memories become more powerful the longer they are experienced. There are twelve lines arranged in three end-stopped quatrains. The rhyming is simple with a scheme of aabb. The rhyming relationships are slightly hidden due to enjambment in the second, sixth, and tenth lines. Line two ends with see but the idea carries on to line three making the rhyme with me in line one not as apparent. The rhyme of clamour and glamour in lines nine and ten respectively, is also not as strongly grasped since it lacks a pause. The line lengths are irregular which along with the enjambment, further illustrates the imagery of a flood of remembrance. Lawrence uses onomatopoeia, which is when a word imitates the sound of a thing, in lines three boom of the tingling strings and tinkling piano our guide inShow MoreRelatedAnalysis Of The Poem Piano 1500 Words   |  6 PagesLike â€Å"Half Past Two†, â€Å"Piano† also explores the theme of childhood. â€Å"Piano† written by D.H. Lawrence is about a persona witnessing a stranger playing a piano, which then triggers a memory of him as a child listening to his mother playing the piano. This is a simple lyric poem that has 3 quatrains with a repeated rhyme scheme of AABB. 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