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PIANO Four Levels and Question Answers                                                                                       

       Four Levels of Piano 

                                                          -David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930)                            1 .LITERAL COMPREHENSION :

'PIANO' is a nostalgic poem composed by D.H Lawrence. The poet has beautifully presented a strong pull of childhood memory in the poem. In one evening, a woman sings a song for the speaker to attract him. But instead of getting attracted to her, the melodious song of the piano draws him back to his past life. He remembers his childhood and becomes emotional. The memory takes him back to old Sunday evenings of winter which he used to spend sitting on his mother's affectionate lap inside the cassy room listening to her hymns. He does not get entertain by the lady's song. So it turns to be useless to use her emotion and enthusiasm in playing the piano. He finds his childhood days more attractive than the song and wishes to go back to the bygone days. Missing his past life, he weeps like a child.                                           

 2. INTERPRETATION :
The poem may be intending to focus on the power of music. Music can touch our hearts . sometimes it makes us happy and sometimes it makes us sad. It can change our mood. The poem might be also talking about Universal human nature to be nostalgic. The speaker becomes emotional and weeps like a child by recalling his childhood. 

3. CRITICAL THINKING :
The poem is impressive and interesting. The poet has beautifully presented the universal human nature. However, I have some questions in my mind about the poem. 
i) Does a mature man weep like a child simply for the past? 

ii) Is everyone's childhood memorable like that of the speaker? 

4. ASSIMILATION :
After reading this poem, I realized that music is powerful which can distract us at any time and situation. Sometimes it happens to me as well some songs make me cry and some songs fully entertain me.

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Question Answers of Piano : 

Q1. Why does the speaker weep like a child in the poem 'PIANO' ? 

ANSWER : The speaker weeps like a child in the poem 'PIANO' because the women's song takes the poet back to the happy past . He does not like to listen to the music any more. He wants to be lost himself with his happy memory.He is very happy with his childhood memories. He does not like to become a man.Therefore the speaker weeps like a child.

Q2. How does the speaker become nostalgic in the poem 'PIANO' ?

ANSWER : The speaker becomes nostalgic in the poem piano by listening the song of a woman. Her song take the speaker to his childhood. He recalls the past and supposes that he is a very small boy sitting on the piano and his mother is singing and he is pressing her feet . she smiles at him and continues her playing. The poet knows that it is his memorable past .He does not like to listen the music anymore. He wants to be lost himself with his happy memory .He is very happy with his childhood memory . Now he does not like to become a man. He throws his manhood and begins to cry like a child. He supposes with his mother and likes to listen to the piano just playing by his mother. He does not  like to forget his past memories.

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