Thanking My Mother For Piano Lessons Simon Fith Analysis

The joy of music
Guess what! Three days grace is coming to town! Unfortunately, anyone looking to attend their concert will have to wait another year, because tickets are already sold out. This isn’t surprising, as popular singers and musicians decide to come to cities and perform, thousands of teenagers and young adults spend a lot of money trying to get in. Most of their fans often show frustration and disappointment when they can’t. Although the role of music may have changed over the course of history, it still remains omnipresent and essential to human beings. Nowadays, people often use it socialize, to communicate and to escape.

Today, music plays a big part in society. In Simon Frith’s statement, it ‘’ […] describes the social in the individual and the individual in the social […]’’ (109). What I
Many people find it easier to feel and escape through it without uttering any word. Taking the speaker of Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons as an example, she was able to escape by playing the piano. In fact, she “[…] played her way through fear, through ugliness […] and lonely afternoons, days, evenings, nights […].”(Wakoski 56) The need to escape reality is something everybody has felt once in their lives, even without realizing it. It’s, indeed, the reason why so many nightclubs exist in big cities like Montreal. Just like the speaker of the poem was able to escape through a piano, some people, after a frustrating day, enter a club with their friends and dance all night to clear their minds. The reaction of the body to the rhythm of a particular song, or rather its response to the music, somehow makes it easier for people to forget whatever brought them there. Frith, in fact, mentions this point, by saying that “[music describes] the mind in the body and the body in the mind.”(109) In other words, through the body, the mind is able to heal and all thanks to