Lawrence introduces us to his childhood – as an important part of his life – using a piano as a symbol of this stage. In the poem we can find references to two pianos. In the first two lines of the poem Lawrence takes us – through the dusk – to his past. This way he lets us inside his childhood memories within the first two paragraphs. In the last part of the poem he leads us to his adulthood, exactly when he is remembering. So that the first piano refers to his childhood and the second one refers to