Poetry Comparison by Brianna Hege https://padlet.com/35664/fvidzrqotecf Comparison of "Piano" by D.H. Lawrence and "My Grandmother's Love Letters" by Hart Crane en-us 2017-02-23 19:44:15 UTC 2017-02-24 19:32:19 UTC hello@padlet.com Piano by D.H. Lawrence 3481 https://padlet.com/35664/fvidzrqotecf/wish/155885925 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 the past. ]]> 2017-02-23 19:50:07 UTC https://padlet.com/35664/fvidzrqotecf/wish/155885925 3481 https://padlet.com/35664/fvidzrqotecf/wish/155886777 2017-02-23 19:52:46 UTC https://padlet.com/35664/fvidzrqotecf/wish/155886777 My Grandmother's Love Letters by Hart Crane 35664 https://padlet.com/35664/fvidzrqotecf/wish/155887209 There are no stars tonight 
But those of memory. 
Yet how much room for memory there is 
In the loose girdle of soft rain. 

There is even room enough 
For the letters of my mother’s mother, 
Elizabeth, 
That have been pressed so long 
Into a corner of the roof 
That they are brown and soft, 
And liable to melt as snow. 

Over the greatness of such space 
Steps must be gentle. 
It is all hung by an invisible white hair. 
It trembles as birch limbs webbing the air. 

And I ask myself: 

“Are your fingers long enough to play 
Old keys that are but echoes: 
Is the silence strong enough 
To carry back the music to its source 
And back to you again 
As though to her?” 

Yet I would lead my grandmother by the hand 
Through much of what she would not understand; 
And so I stumble. And the rain continues on the roof 
With such a sound of gently pitying laughter.

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]]> 2017-02-23 19:59:12 UTC https://padlet.com/35664/fvidzrqotecf/wish/155888959 Piano Music 3481 https://padlet.com/35664/fvidzrqotecf/wish/155890612 https://youtu.be/Vdv7NlztX6A]]> 2017-02-23 20:04:53 UTC https://padlet.com/35664/fvidzrqotecf/wish/155890612 Personification 35664 https://padlet.com/35664/fvidzrqotecf/wish/156115069 The phrase "tingling strings" from lines 3 and 4 of "Piano" personify the piano strings that tingle just as a person would at the sound of a triggering noise. In "My Grandmother's Love Letters," the rain is personified to have a sound of "gently pitying laughter" as it is represented by the grandmother looking down on her grandson. ]]> 2017-02-24 18:51:02 UTC https://padlet.com/35664/fvidzrqotecf/wish/156115069 Melody 3481 https://padlet.com/35664/fvidzrqotecf/wish/156116703 The phrase "in the boom of the tingling/ strings" (lines 3-4) is a sound device. "Old keys that are but echos:/Is the silence strong enough" (lines 17-18) from "My Grandmother's Love Letters" is also an example of a sound device. ]]> 2017-02-24 18:55:24 UTC https://padlet.com/35664/fvidzrqotecf/wish/156116703 Enjambment 3481 https://padlet.com/35664/fvidzrqotecf/wish/156119490 An example of enjambment in "Piano is "Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see/ 
A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling/strings." An example of enjambment in "My Grandmother's Love Letters"  is "Yet how much room for memory there is 
In the loose girdle of soft rain." These are examples of enjambment because they are lines that run into another line of both poems.

]]> 2017-02-24 19:03:31 UTC https://padlet.com/35664/fvidzrqotecf/wish/156119490 Allegory 35664 https://padlet.com/35664/fvidzrqotecf/wish/156121537 "Piano" is alluding to the speaker and his desire to drown his sorrows in alcohol. This pain and sense of self-abuse was brought on by the fact that his lover has left him and he is in despair. "My Grandmother's Love Letters" is an allegory to paying the rightful tribute to those who came before you. While they may not be with you anymore, their legacy will be with you forever, as well as the memoirs they left for you. ]]> 2017-02-24 19:10:05 UTC https://padlet.com/35664/fvidzrqotecf/wish/156121537 Themes 3481 https://padlet.com/35664/fvidzrqotecf/wish/156122398 Reminiscing about the past/nostalgia- Both poems are looking at the past of two different people. 

The power of memory- Both poems have memories from both people's childhood, showing that the memories stay with people forever. ]]> 2017-02-24 19:12:44 UTC https://padlet.com/35664/fvidzrqotecf/wish/156122398 Comparison 3481 https://padlet.com/35664/fvidzrqotecf/wish/156123737 Both poems discuss songs and the sweet sound of youth and the precious memories it holds. 

"Piano" rhymes, allowing for the flow of the poem, showing the reader has coherent thoughts. "My Grandmother's Love Letters" does not rhyme, but still has coherent thoughts. ]]> 2017-02-24 19:17:08 UTC https://padlet.com/35664/fvidzrqotecf/wish/156123737 Mood 35664 https://padlet.com/35664/fvidzrqotecf/wish/156125710 The mood of both poems overall is very reflective and somber, as the speaker is remembering the times he and his lost love had. The lovers from "Piano" had a deep love and respect for each other, but that time is now over, so the man is drowning his sorrows in alcohol in hopes that he will find a new love. ]]> 2017-02-24 19:24:10 UTC https://padlet.com/35664/fvidzrqotecf/wish/156125710 3481 https://padlet.com/35664/fvidzrqotecf/wish/156126251
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