Piano

                                                                          D. H. Lawrence, England (1885 – 1930)
Summary in English  

"Piano" is a lyric poem reflecting the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker as he listens at dusk to a woman singing a song that brings back childhood memories of sitting at his mother's feel while she played the piano. It is a short poem of 12 lines divided into three quatrains, rhymed AABB. The poem contains vivid images, and specific and concrete details provide a clear embodiment of his memory.
The poem shows the conflict between the speaker's (poet) desire to go back to the childhood and his desire to be a perfect man. Similarly, it highlights the significance of music where all most all creature n this universe including human beings are influenced by it.
The poet expresses his feeling and emotions that a beautiful girl is playing piano in the evening in soft and melodious form to attract the handsome poet. He says that she wants to make him the best lover. As the poet listen such music, he remembers his past childhood days where he takes the present girl as his mother. He forgets the present where he is and thinks that he is sleeping on the lap of lady of his mother under the piano. As he is young, he tries to control himself. But, the memory of the past frequently comes to him. So, he assumes as if he was a child and does the activities like small child forgetting his present age, roles and responsibilities. He starts weeping as he used to do when he was child.