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    A Study Guide for D. H. Lawrence's "Piano"
    A Study Guide for D. H. Lawrence's "Piano"
    A Study Guide for D. H. Lawrence's "Piano"
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    A Study Guide for D. H. Lawrence's "Piano"

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    A Study Guide for D. H. Lawrence's "Piano," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 19, 2016
    ISBN9781535830867
    A Study Guide for D. H. Lawrence's "Piano"

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      A Study Guide for D. H. Lawrence's "Piano" - Gale

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      Piano

      D. H. Lawrence

      1913

      Introduction

      A lyric poem reflecting the speaker’s struggle to ward off childhood memories that threaten to engulf him, Piano embodies many of the conflicts that would plague D. H. Lawrence throughout his life. The poem describes how a man is transported to the past while listening to a woman singing at a piano. Though he fights against what he sees as his sentimental response to the music, the speaker finally surrenders, giving himself over to his memories, until, finally, he is living in the past. Critics and biographers have written at length about Lawrence’s relationships with women, and Lawrence himself has made the examination of man-woman relationships the thematic center of both his fiction and poetry. Piano has become widely anthologized not because it is necessarily a good poem but because editors consider it representative of Lawrence’s ideas about mother-son

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