D.H. Lawrence "Piano"

Most of the poems have more than one poetic element in it that add to the meaning of the piece. Although, there is only one element that alone can give the entire meaning of the poem. In “Piano” by D.H. Lawrence, the poetic element that seems to stick out is imagery. Lawrence uses imagery in a way which shows not only the actual scene, but he also shows what he remembered by the scene (flashback).
The entire poem is about a lady in a dark room singing and how that brings back his memories of childhood. The beginning image of the lady singing and him remembering his past sets the mood of it being happy. The images given in this poem is basically the meaning of the poem and in no sense is it used just decorative purposes. Each image shows how much he misses his childhood and his mother. The images are very clear and extremely easy for the reader to image what is going on. As a reader, one can easily see the poet sitting under the piano pressing his mom feet who is playing the piano while smiling. He presents two images, which interconnect with each other. The first image is of the woman singing and the second is his childhood. The soft singing of the woman takes him back to his childhood and makes him realize in the end how much he misses it. In the end, Lawrence presents a scene of him crying, which changes the mood to sad and sorrowful.
The images present in this poem are not dramatic or full of thrill, but rather are a glimpse of the poet’s happy childhood. He does use other poetic elements that add to the meaning like sentence structure and a casual tone for language, but imagery is the most vital. The imagery is vital, because the speaker sees the images in his mind and puts them down on paper in the form of words, so that the reader can understand what he sees.