'Piano' by D.H.Lawrence

themes
1. nostalgia
2. childhood
3. memory
4. reality
5. loss
form and structure
1. quatrins (4 line stanzas)
  1. first two stanzas focus on the past
    1. last stanza looks at present
    2. chronological order
language
1. rhyming couplets
  1. give the poem a musical tone. nursury rhyme being told to a child
2. personification
  1. 'the insidious mastery of song betrays me back'
    1. music has become bittersweet causing him pain and sadness
3. onomatopoeia
  1. 'BOOM' contrasts with softer sounds perhaps bring him back to reality
  2. 'Tingling, Tingling' echo the sound of the piano
sibilance (alliteration using 's' sounds
1. 'softly dusk' and 'smilies as she sings'
  1. relaxing, calming atmosphere
  2. tranquil memories
similie (weep like a child)
1. comparing him to a child
2. bridging childhood and adultood
3. taking him back a child like state

Resource summary

	Created by amina2000 about 9 years ago