Nostalgia In The Poem Piano

The theme of nostalgia has been widely conveys in poetry. It is very distinct how poets always try to demonstrate different facets to the feeling of reminiscence and nostalgia. A lot of poets illustrate dark encounters that have happened in the past. Ninety percent of all poets have gone through a traumatic experience in their lives. They can also be thought of as extremely sentimental due to their expressiveness.

In the poem ‘Piano’ David H. Lawrence portrays himself as nostalgic as he listens to an unknown woman singing and playing the piano, which reminds him of his mother. In the poem, D H Lawrence uses flashbacks between an unknown woman singing, a childhood memory of listening to his mother as she plays. After his mother passed it had

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In the fourth stanza Owen uses his words to criticize those who think of war as glorious and a proud thing to fight for one’s country. He says that if u do not want to have to go through all the pain, you should not advertise going to war as something to be proud of or find glory in. There is no ambiguity in the poem, and only the reality of war. Prayer Before Birth” by Louis McNiece is a dramatic poem that is written from the perspective of an unborn child. Through the persona of an unborn child, the monologue makes an crying plea for his individuality, to not be part of a world so cruel and full of hatred. The poet in this poem expresses his fear of threat to mankind which may be brought about by war. He expresses his fear saying what the world’s cruelty can do to the innocence of a