How Is Home a Happy Place?

“Each poet depicts home as a happy place, what is there in the poems that show this?” you ask? Well I am about to answer that. In two poems, ‘Piano’ and ‘John Mouldy’, the poets describe home in their poems which can be happy or an unhappy depending on a point of view taken. Looking at Piano, the poet is talking about a memory he has, of him as a child sitting under a piano. He seems to talk about his mother and fills the poem full of his nostalgic past, compared to John Moudly, the poet uses a man he has dubbed “John Moudly” as his subject, he sees John Moudly being content in his cellar as he describes him as “a-smiling”, while in Piano, he “weeps like a child” for his past, contrast being content with one’s life as it is and showing a melancholic emotion to want to go back to the past, where home can be what it is now or what it was before.
We can see the subject matter in a bland sense from the title, being ‘Piano’, which doesn’t explain a lot but we are aware a piano is somewhere in this poem, but more so, we can find the subject matter but the language used and by context of the poem. The poet talks about him in the first stanza looking at himself as a child under a piano and sees his mother smiling and singing. The poet mentions a “vista of years” and this gives me the image of a beach side house as a vista is view and as it can give an image of say a beach to me, where beaches are usually filled with happiness, we can find this to be a happy moment in this life but reading on we see it mentions “a vista of years” meaning his memories, so the question is, what is home to him? Looking at this, his home is his memories, his past, going back to when he was a child and he sees his mother smiling. The rhyme of the poem goes by a normal aabb couplet rhyme scheme which adds to a musical sense, backing up the poem’s title as a piano is used to play music, and adding a sense of child like nostalgia, if we remember nursery rhymes, they have a rhyme scheme of either...