Memory is the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information. Memory is such an important part of human nature that philosophers past and present have theorized that it is one of the necessary qualities that make us human. Memory is unique because we all have different memories of past events that occurred during our very uneven and contrasting lives. Memory is a subject that flourishes in the poetic entity and this essay will explore the contemplations and methods on this theme by six poets: DH Lawrence in Piano; Gabriel Okara in “Once Upon a Time”; Hide and Seek by Victor Scannel; Brothers” by Andrew Forster; “Poem at Thirty-Nine” by Alice Walker and “The Long Small Room” by Edward Thomas. In the poem "Piano", DH Lawrence desperately wants to return to his past life while a woman sings and plays the piano, this triggers his memory. and he begins to remember his childhood. When the woman sings and plays the piano, the sounds take him back in time to when he was a child. This poem uses a very visible structure to support its main theme. It consists of three regular quatrains in which the poet listens to a singer accompanied by a piano playing music that "takes me back in time", indicating to the reader that the music holds the key to the memories that come back to him. The memory was that while his mother played the piano, he sat under the piano accompanied by the strong vibration of the strings, Lawrence sang and smiled. The smile was probably due to the child playing with her "balanced little feet", suggesting that the mother was a talented musician. The beginning of each stanza opens with the poet in the present tense and listening to the music of the piano and singing...... middle of paper ...... Edward Thomas consists of a structure similar to one in which the poem is also composed of quatrains, but there are four stanzas with rhyming lines of equal length. The poem also shows a clear structure divided into two unequal parts, the first three stanzas are a memory of a room in his house that he loved as a child and the final stanza is mainly a contemplation of his current life. This is clearly demonstrated by the use of the past tense in the third stanza, and then there is a sudden shift, which occurs, in the last line of the third stanza to the present tense. The change in tense creates significant similarities between the two poems. However, in Lawrence's "Piano", the change in time is sudden and it moves back and forth between beats, but in "The Long Small Room", the changes in time are more linear. direct because it goes from past to present.