Piano
The poem , by D. H. Lawrence describes his memories of childhood. Hearing a woman singing takes him to the time when his mother played on Sunday evenings. In the present, this woman is singing and playing the with great passion. However, the passionate music is not effecting him, because he can only think about his childhood rather than the beauty of the music that exists in his actual space.
�A woman is singing� softly to the speaker �in the dusk.� The speaker is describing the place he is at in the present moment. It�s partially dark, and a woman is singing to him. As he listens to the woman�s soft voice, he remembers the time when he was little. He says that it is taking him ...
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this scenery in his mind. As a reader, I can even imagine him standing in a dark room looking at a woman singing and imagining his old days with his mother. Using the picturesque words such as �softly,� �dusk,� �tingling,� and �poised� describe the scene very clearly. As he sees the woman singing while she plays the , he begins to picture himself under the when he was little, and he pictures his mother singing while he was under that . This scenery is very pleasant and happy. A child is under his mother, he is touching her feet. This shows how his childhood must have been, and the readers can see the reason why he wants to go back to his childhood.
In the next four lines of the poem, the speaker talks about how he feels as he imagines his childhood. Even though he is in front of this woman who is singing and playing music, �in spite of� himself, his present state, this �insidious mastery of song betrays� the speaker back �till� he �weeps� to go back to his childhood. The ...
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