Lawrence
I turned around gently and listened to a lady singing softly in the twilight.
Let my thoughts trace back to the beautiful scenery of those years until my eyes shine.
A child is sitting under the piano, tinkling.
And press the steady steps, belonging to the mother, laughing like singing.
Even if you force yourself, the implicit control of the song.
Betrayed my original intention until my inner sobs belonged to it again.
Belongs to the home of last Sunday night, isolated from the harsh winter outside.
It also belongs to the hymn in the comfortable living room, and the tinkling piano gives us guidance.
So now even if the singer suddenly makes a sound, it is meaningless.
Enthusiasm overflowed with the huge dark piano. charm
My manhood was abandoned when I approached me from my childish days.
Lost in the torrent of memory, I cried for the past like a child.
About the author:
David Herbert Lawrence (1885- 1930) is one of the most unique and controversial British writers in the 20th century. He is an English poet, novelist and essayist who has been wandering at home and abroad for more than ten years. He wrote poems, but mainly novels, including 10 * *, the most famous ones are Rainbow (19 15), Women in Love (192 1) and Lady Chatterley's Lover.
Lawrence advocates the free development of human nature and opposes the destruction of nature by industrial civilization. His works deeply discussed family, marriage and sex, which had a wide influence on the novel creation in the 20th century.
Introduction and appreciation of poetry;
The novel Sons and Lovers, published by 19 13, was once regarded as a typical Oedipus plot in Freud's psychological theory and attracted the attention of critics. Lawrence himself admits that the theme of this novel reflecting social life is strictly subject to Freud's theory, which is exactly the same as the theme of Lawrence's later short poem The Piano. Sons and Lovers traces the development of the protagonist's character in a retrospective way, while Piano shows the poet's feelings in an unusually delicate way by choosing only one scene, which fully shows the superiority of poetry in expression, and can almost be said to be a highly concentrated Sons and Lovers.
This poem is developed in the contrast between the past and the present. The poet indulged in childhood memories in the soft voice of a young female singer. In warm memories, I seem to see young children sitting at their mother's feet, listening to her soothing piano music and gentle songs. Many people have commented on the Oedipus complex reflected in this poem. Perhaps, in my opinion, everyone has a deep attachment to his mother more or less, because it is the warmest harbor in a person's life.
However, "the reality is submerged by the torrent of the past, and the real existence is diluted". Such a strong reality contrast sets off the glory of things that have passed away like smoke, making readers and poets cry helplessly together, so as to dispel the sadness caused by being trapped in a spiritual predicament.
Looking at the whole poem, it is not difficult to find that the artistic technique of the poem is very interesting. Although this poem is about children's memory of their mother, the image of the mother is very vague and only appears once in the poem. In sharp contrast, the image of young female singers is distinct, leading the whole poem in the first line, and then strengthened in the third section 1. This contrast creates a strong tension between the lines of the poem, which better conveys the contradictions and conflicts in the poet's heart. In the poem, I see more of a grown-up child, looking at the bright moon outside the window alone in the lonely night, thinking about the warm embrace of his childhood mother and humming the song that his mother once sang, but the reality cruelly separates him from this dream. He can only listen to the sad tune of the piano and cry silently.