"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 "back down the vista of years," till he sees "a child sitting under the piano." This child is the speaker.

The child is "sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings," and he is "pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings." When the speaker was a child, he used to be under the piano where the strings were tingling since his mother was playing the piano. He used to press his mother's feet, which were in balance. His mother was singing with a smile on her

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 guileful dominance of the song the woman is singing beguiles him to think about his past experience. His heart "weeps to belong to the old Sunday evenings at home." He really misses the time when he was little, and he used to hear his mother playing piano every Sunday evening. He wants to go back to his childhood and belong to that time again.

D. H. Lawrence rhymed every end of the first and the second line, as well as the third and the fourth line. This adds a musical rhythm to the poem when readers read the poem. Also, because the title of this poem is Piano it makes the reader think about rhythm and sound. Overall, this poem is artistic. It has artistic sounds and scenery. He describes scenes with detailed and artistic words. His hope to go back to his childhood is very nostalgic, and this adds to the artistic side in the poem.

In the last four lines, the speaker is back to the present time. He says, "so now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamour with the great black piano appassionato." Since he can only think about his childhood

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Approximate Word count = 938
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)