Question

what activity in the past does the speaker seem to be weeping for?

Answer 1

Answer:

Believing he had escaped those days, the speaker in D.H. Lawrence's “Piano” begins to “weep like a child for the past”. In the opening of the poem, the speaker is struck by the woman's singing. Her voice evokes a flood of remembrance” of when he was a “child sitting under the piano” beside his mother's “poised feet”.