Eavan Boland
... striking of the steel wires. A piano produces loud sounds but when one wire or key brakes the piano is not so loud and strong. This situation with the paino parellels Lawerence's emotional trip down "the vista of years," that he journeys through when reminded about his past. Lawerence divides his poem, "Piano" into three stanzas. The first stanza reveals to the reader the setting and the actions occuring from this women singing. In the second stanza Lawerence creates a vivid image of his past memories which he is remembering. In the final stanza Lawrence pleads his struggle about not reliving the past, ut he finally gives in and emotionally indulges in his past. In the first line Lawerence creates an image of what is causing his sudden urning for the past, "Softly, in the duck, a woman is singing to me;" Lawrence creates a sense of comfort and relaxation. ( Later in the poem we grasp a change in emotions where the speaker is no longer relaxed, but he is struggling with his past). Lawrence describes his revival of his past as being taken "down the vista of years" this describtion of his memory is unique because it entales an intellectual perseption of a persons past. Lawrence's word choice dictates that this is a mental view embracing a series of events, not just a trip down memory lane. Then in lines three and four Lawrence recounts some of his past, "A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings" "And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings." Lawerence desribes the strings of the piano as tingling. This adjective of the strings reflects Lawrence's feeling about reviving his past. Like a tingling string Lawrence is also vibrating with anxiety. The singing women in the beginning and his mother who sings seems to pose a threat to him. A revealation of his past which he does not want to relive. In another work Lawrence has produced Sons and Lovers, Lawerence desribes a vieled account of his breaking ...