PIANO BY DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE. A SHORT COMMENTARY ON THE POEM
Lawrence, who is perhaps better known as a novelist – for his masterpiece Sons and Lovers and for the more controversial novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover –. He was born on the 11th September 1885 in Eastwood, a coal-mining village in Nottinghamshire England. His father was a struggling coal miner and her mother a former schoolteacher, greatly superior in education to her husband. Lawrence’s childhood was dominated by poverty and friction between his parents. Despite his hard background, he became one of the greatest figures in 20th-century English literature, as a novelist, storywriter, critic, poet and painter. He died from Tuberculosis on the 2nd March, 1930. He wrote several poems about his close relationship with his mother. ‘Piano’ is one of such poems.