1. By D. H. Lawrence Powerpoint by Erika Kohlhoff
Piano
By D. H. Lawrence
Powerpoint by Erika Kohlhoff

2. The Poem I’m Not Presenting
A Birthday By Christina Rossetti
My heart is like a singing bird
                  Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
                  Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
                  That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
                  Because my love is come to me.
Raise me a dais of silk and down;
                  Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
                  And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
                  In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
                  Is come, my love is come to me.

3. Poem Piano By D. H. Lawrence
Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see
A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.
In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song
Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong
To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside
And hymns in the cosy parlour, the tinkling piano our guide.
So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamour
With the great black piano appassionato. The glamour
Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast
Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past.

4. Literary achievements and/or style
“Lawrence’s writing is notable for its intensity and its erotic sensuality
He had an extraordinary ability to convey a sense of specific time and place, and his writings often reflected his complex personality. 
 All of Lawrence’s novels are written in a lyrical, sensuous, often rhapsodic prose style. 
Lawrence was a very distinct author, his works were a bit explicit and not everyone agreed with his style of writing.”

5. Why Do You Think The Poem Was Organized This Way?
I think it was because then the reader could know when the speaker was talking about the present or talking about the past.

6. The Style/Genre of the Poem
The style/genre of this poem is a ballad.

7. Imagery
”A child sitting under the piano”

8. Imagery
“I weep like a child for the past”

9. Imagery
“And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.”

10. Imagery
“To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside”

11. Biographical Information about the Writer
D. H. Lawrence was “born in England on September 11, ”
He grew up in “a small mining town”
He has written many things
He didn’t fit in with other people.
He was weak and sickly

12. More Biographical Information
His mom loved books and she taught him to love them too
Loved his mother a lot, but didn’t love his father
“Lawrence drew upon his own experiences to inform his work”
Got a scholarship when he was 12
Got married to a girl called Jessie Chambers.

13. These are a Few Pictures of the Poet:

14. Theme of the Poem
“You never forget childhood memories”

15. Structure of the Poem The rhyme scheme is A, A; B, B.
Piano By D. H. Lawrence
Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see
A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.
In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song
Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong
To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside
And hymns in the cosy parlour, the tinkling piano our guide.
So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamour
With the great black piano appassionato. The glamour
Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast
Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past.
The rhyme scheme is A, A; B, B.
This is a rhyme poem
The lines are grouped into 6 rhyming pairs
Since the rhyme scheme is the way it is, it is flowing, and is lyrical
There are 3 stanzas
There are 12 lines jj

16. Literal Meaning 1. “I weep like a child for the past”
This narrator is upset and sad because he longs for his childhood because according to the poem, it was a loving one and that he was close to his mother. 2.
“And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.”
The narrator is remembering when he used to sit under the piano while his mother played and he pressed her feet and decided when the pedals were pushed.

17. Speaker of the Poem
The speaker of the poem is of an adult now speaking wistfully of the good times of his childhood when he heard his mother sing and play the piano.

18. Author’s Purpose
The Author’s purpose of the poem was to talk about memories of his childhood and how he wished he was there again. He wanted to express how childhood memories could be with you always, whether they were good or bad.

19. Literary Terms One example of a literary term in this poem is rhyme.
In the poem it says:
Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; “A"
Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see “A”
A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings “B”
And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.” “B”

20. Another Literary Term is:
Onomatopoeia
An example of this in the poem is:
“A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings”
Pianos do not make the sound “boom”, but the writer wanted to represent how loud and strong the piano sound was.

21. Literary Term Rhyme Scheme
The rhyme scheme in the poem is A, B, A, B throughout the entire poem. This element gives the poem a steady rhythm and beat.

22. Literary Term Simile “I weep like a child for the past”
A simile is comparing things using like or as.

23. Websites used:
h-lawrence