How does the poem Piano relate to the quote by Jack London?

Question

Lawrence David Herbert ( DH Lawrence) Poem

Piano

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.

Quote by Jack London

“Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?”

Answer 1

The poem takes the person back in time -

"taking me back down the vista of years" ;

"betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong To the old Sunday evenings at home"

"down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past."

The quote is like saying - the wheel (of time) keeps going forward. Tomorrow always comes.

Where is the reverse is like saying - I want to go back in time.

See how they relate?

Does that help?