The Piano Questions

1. In this poem the memory that is being recalled is of the child sitting under the piano as he listens to his mother play the piano.

2. The speaker says "weeps like a child for the past" because he misses how his life was as a child and those sunday evenings he has with his mother. He missed the "glamour of childish days" and "the old sunday evenings at home."

4. The speaker says "now it is vain for the singer to burst to clamour" meaning it is useless because he is not a child, it is not his mother and he is not sitting under the piano listening to his mother sing and play like he used to as a child. That memory can not be brought back.