Comparing these two poems?

Question

Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
Adrienne Rich

Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance across a screen,
Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.
They do not fear the men beneath the tree;
They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.

Aunt Jennifer's finger fluttering through her wool
Find even the ivory needle hard to pull.
The massive weight of Uncle's wedding band
Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer's hand.

When Aunt is dead, her terrified hands will lie
Still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by.
The tigers in the panel that she made
Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid.

and

PIANO
By D.H. Lawrence

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 for the past.


So, what do you think. How are they similar? Thanks

Answer 1

Best Answer - Chosen by Voters

once you get past the AA BB rhyme scheme that screams at you, the biggest similarity is in their theme. both are about how each moment of our past embroiders and gives meaning to our present.

Answer 2

The impression on a child of observing an adult ernestly doing some activity because they love to do it, especially an activity involving creativeness, lasts long after the adult is gone. It becomes an emotional tie to the past for the child even into maturity and beyond. Both poems dramatize this phenomenon.