Memory is the faculty with which the mind stores and remembers information. Memory is such an important part of human nature that philosophers past and present have hypothesized that it is one of the necessary qualities that make us human. Memory is unique as we all have different memories of past events that happened in our very mismatched and conflicting lives. Memory is a topic that flourishes in the entity of poetry and this essay will explore the contemplations and methods on this theme of 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 his past life back as 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, her sounds take him back in time to when he was a child. This poem uses a very obvious 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 to the time of the years", this tells the reader that the music is the key to the memories that come back to him. The memory was 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 most likely caused by the little girl playing with her “little dangling feet,” which suggests that the mother was a skilled musician. The beginning of each stanza opens with the poet in the present and listening to the music from the piano and the singing...... center of the paper...... Edward Thomas has a similar structure to that in which it is composed also quatrain poetry, however there are four stanzas with rhyming lines of equal length. The poem also shows a clear structure divided into two irregular parts, the first three stanzas are a memory of a room in his house that he liked as a child and the final stanza is mainly a contemplation of what his life is like in the present. This is clearly shown 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 tenses draws significant similarities between the two poems, however in Lawrence's "Piano" the change in tenses is sudden and he goes back and forth between the tenses but in "The Long Small Room" the alterations in tenses are more linear/ direct because it goes from the past to the present.