SSLC ENGLISH I & II - PAPER- IMPORTANT FIVE MARKS PARAGRAPH
(PROSE, POEM & DRAMA)
Poem-2-THE PIANO POET INTRODUCTION
David Herbert Lawrence was born in the English midlands He is well known and acclaimed as a novelist and short story writer.
“His poems shows a great appreciation for the physical aspects of life” INTRODUCTION:
This poem is a simple expression from his heart. It has great Emotional appeal because
“Our hearts can understand and the truth in his words “ A WOMEN SINGING:
D.H.Lawrence listens to a woman singing. The song takes him to his childhood days.
Softly in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back sown the visit of years, till I see.
THE POET REMINISCENCES:
The poet sees himself as a child listening to his mother‟s song. She smiled as she song, when the poet touched her feet. In winter season, on Sunday nights he sang to the accompaniment of piano in the comfort of his home. This scene also comes to his mind.
To the old Sunday evening at home, with winter outside And hymns in the cosy parlour the tinkling piano our guide.
He cannot ask the woman to burst in to glamour. His childhood memories are so heavy upon his mind that he weeps like a child for his childhood days.
The Glamour of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast. CONCLUSION:
The poet shows how music has the capacity to bring back memories. Also it portrays the natural instinct that
“Inside every grown up man, there is a child longing to come out”
PROVERB:
Music brings back our happiness and sadness.