Hi Everyone!! This article will share Piano Questions & Answers.
This poem is written by D H Lawrence. In my previous posts, I have shared the questions and answers of Bees, Matilda Who Told Lies and Night Mail so, you can check these posts as well.
Piano Questions & Answers
Question 1: What brings back the memories to the poet’s mind?
Answer: A woman singing to the speaker brings the memories to the poet’s mind.
Question 2: What does the poet long for?
Answer: The poet longs for the old Sunday evenings at his cosy parlour when his mother would sing hymns and play the piano.
Question 3: What do we learn from the phrase ‘in spite of myself”?
Answer: We learn from the phrase ‘in spite of myself’ that the poet himself is not willing to recall those days, but despite his efforts, the song takes him back to his childhood days.
Question 4: In what way is the poet’s manhood ‘cast down’?
Answer: The poet’s manhood is ‘cast down’ because being a grownup, a mature adult, he does not want to show his emotions; nonetheless, he can no longer control himself, and cries yearning for his innocent childhood days.
Question 5: What qualities might you class as being part of one’s ‘manhood’?
Answer: The qualities I might class as being part of one’s ‘manhood’ would be bravery, responsibility, and integrity.
Question 6: How does this poem make you feel? How do you think the poet manages to make you feel that way?
Answer: This poem makes me feel warm, nostalgic, and emotional. The poet manages to make me feel warm by using the words ‘softly’ and ‘in the dusk’. Also, he makes me emotional and nostalgic by painting a scene of pure love and care of a mother that the poet weeps for and uses the simile of a child to describe his state of helplessness.
Question 7: Find words in the poem for the following:
1. Sounds or noise – clamour, tingling
2. A technical musical expression – appassionato
3. A room in a house – parlour
4. A colour – black
5. A time of day – dusk
6. Human beings – woman, child, mother
Question 8: What is the rhyming pattern in the poem?
Answer: The rhyming pattern in this poem is AABBCCDD.
Question 9: Figurative language: Metaphors in English, especially in poetry, we often use figurative language such as similes or metaphors. In a simile, we compare two things with the use of ‘as’ or ‘like’: she clucked like a hen, he was as cool as a cucumber, he was like a fish out of water, she is as deaf as a post. In a metaphor, we use words for objects to which they are not literally applicable. e.g. a glaring error, a flood of letters, a poisoned mind, she sailed across the room. Can you find a metaphor in the poem?
Answer: A metaphor in the poem is found when the poet uses the word ‘vistas’ for the speaker’s memories of his childhood; it means a landscape, a pleasing view, or a panorama.
So, these were the Questions & Answers.