-
D. H. Lawrence
In his poem "the Bat", D. H. Lawrence describes sitting on a terrace somewhere in Florence, Italy "beyond Pisa, beyond the mountains of Carrara," watching the sun go down. Suddenly he sees...
-
D. H. Lawrence
“Money-Madness,” written by D. H. Lawrence in the 1920s, has a message that is appropriate for the world today. In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people...
-
D. H. Lawrence
James Joyce’s The Dead exemplifies modernism largely due to the main character in the story—Gabriel Conroy. He leads an empty, outcast, and seemingly insignificant life, which aligns with the theme...
-
D. H. Lawrence
"Winter Dawn" by D. H. Lawrence begins with the inauspicious image: Green star SiriusDribbling over the lake; Sirius is one of the brightest stars in the sky. It is also known as the dog star,...
-
D. H. Lawrence
The word "dirt" in the poem signifies the dehumanizing effects of poverty. As the speaker makes clear, in a consumerist society where money is everything, those without money are effectively...
-
D. H. Lawrence
"Bat" by D. H. Lawrence (David Herbert Lawrence, 1885–1930) is a poem that draws upon the author's extensive experience living in countries other than his native England. "Bat" takes place in...
-
D. H. Lawrence
In the poem "Bat" by D. H. Lawrence, the speaker seems to be exploring themes of fear of the actual animal while also exploring how the bat represents fear of darkness and the night. The speaker...
-
D. H. Lawrence
Impatience is the tone most strongly conveyed in the poem The Last Lesson by D.H. Lawrence. This poem is, quite simply, about a child who cannot wait to get out of school. The ambiguous "they" that...
-
D. H. Lawrence
The poem "Conceit" contains several themes including arrogance, self-worth, and personal action. Lawrence attacks the idea of societal arrogance and conceit in the poem. He states it is our...
-
D. H. Lawrence
This is one of those questions which can and should receive a variety of responses for two reasons. First, there is no definitive list of Lawrence's poetry (or most poets, for that matter) in...
-
D. H. Lawrence
The poem, "The Snake," by D.H. Lawrence is a recollection of an event in the poet’s life. Initially, the poet is rather annoyed that he has to wait in line as the snake drinks from the trough....
-
D. H. Lawrence
The title of this poem is "Sorrow" and it is one of many that fall under the title of Amores, which means "showing feeling." For Lawrence, instincts and feelings were of paramount importance. In...
-
D. H. Lawrence
The poem ‘Last Lesson Of The Afternoon’ by the genius author and poet, David Herbert Lawrence is very different from his other poetry, and indeed from much of his prose in that it lacks what...
-
D. H. Lawrence
Perspective is introduced into this poem by the persona that Lawrence creates who speaks the words that any teacher can perhaps identify with at times. The persona of this poem is a teacher,...
-
D. H. Lawrence
One example of the theme of responsibility is Winifred’s reaction to her daughter. She does not seem really attached to her daughter, or to like her daughter. Instead, she feels a duty toward...
-
D. H. Lawrence
Line by line is a little difficult, but I will explain each stanza. This poem takes place in Sicily, an island in the Mediterranean Sea, near Italy. Stanza 1: A snake comes to the watering trough...
-
D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence's "Baby Running Barefoot," is written in the form of a Shakespearean sonnet consisting of three open quatrains and a couplet, rhyming ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. Although the underlying meter...
-
D. H. Lawrence
[With poetry it is better to paraphrase by sentence or grammatical unit, rather than by line.] The shades in the classroom are drawn so that the boys are working in the colorless shade....
-
D. H. Lawrence
The tone in this poem shifts. In the beginning, the speaker's tone is one of frustration. The speaker (teacher of the class) describes his frustration in being unable to engage his students. At...
-
D. H. Lawrence
As part of Lawrence's anthology of poems entitled Birds, Beasts, and Flowers, "Bat" seeks to make a statement that shows how the natural world can communicate realities within the human one. A...
-
D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence’s poem “Discord in Childhood” is often interpreted as presenting a child’s recollection of overhearing the child’s parents quarreling. The poem begins with the phrase “Outside the...
-
D. H. Lawrence
It is ironic that, in Last Lesson of the Afternoon by D H Lawrence, it is the teacher who is waiting for the school bell to ring to "end this weariness" and not the students. The children he is...
-
D. H. Lawrence
Lawrence's poem speaks to the condition of how wealth inverts control. Wealth and money is such a seductive force in Lawrence's poem that we are not in control of it, but rather it is in control...
-
D. H. Lawrence
The poem "The Snake," by D.H. Lawrence masterfully recalls a scene in 1923 when he was living in Sicily near Mt. Etna. A poisonous snake passively drinks from the poet's water trough. Serving as...
-
D. H. Lawrence
The tone of "I am Like a Rose" by D.H. Lawrence is pretty hard to miss, it seems to me. Here the speaker of the poem is comparing himself to a rose--and the rose suffers by comparison. In...
-
D. H. Lawrence
In "Piano" by D.H. Lawrence, the speaker experiences something like desperation, when, against his will, he is pulled by the piano music back into the memories of his past. The phrase at the...
-
D. H. Lawrence
Complex writers can be seen as fitting many labels. D. H. Lawrence is one such writer. While he can be considered a "sexual" writer, I would submit that he is much more than solely this. Lawrence...
-
D. H. Lawrence
In the collection where "Sorrow" and "Discord in Childhood" are featured, Amores, Lawrence was attempting to articulate his own poetic expression of Modernism. Lawrence recognized that the modern...
-
D. H. Lawrence
The central theme in "How Beastly the Bourgeois Is" addresses hypocrisy and corruption. D. H. Lawrence criticizes the "male of the species" for having the appearance of goodness and the substance...
-
D. H. Lawrence
A metaphor is a comparison made between two, typically, unlike things. In D. H. Lawrence's poem, "How Beastly the Bourgeois Is," the poet makes many comparisons between the bourgeois and other...
-
D. H. Lawrence
[eNotes editors can only answer one question per posting. If you have additional questions, please post them separately.] It seems, when reading the three lines of poetry in "The White Horse," by...
-
D. H. Lawrence
Both works describe the daily life of a school house from a teacher's perspective. In each work, the young people are described as troubled. The Best of School is an optimisitc work about the...
-
D. H. Lawrence
The main metaphor in D. H. Lawrence’s poem “Last Lesson” is a comparison between his students and a pack of dogs. In the first stanza of the poem, the narrator (who is a teacher) compares his...
-
D. H. Lawrence
This poem describes a journey along a long road, with no defined destination. It can be regarded as a literal journey, but it also appears as a metaphorical journey through life. It takes in...
-
D. H. Lawrence
Some of the differences usually assumed to exist between Victorian literature and modernist literature can be glimpsed by comparing and contrasting Matthew Arnold’s poem beginning “Come to me in my...
-
D. H. Lawrence
In terms of the characteristics that are similar between the writing of Charles Dickens and D.H. Lawrence, one thing that both men seem to have had in common was their realistic portrayal of...
-
D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence revised "Vin Ordinaire" and retitled it "The Thorn in the Flesh." Lawrence found revision and rewriting as creative as writing itself. In revising, Lawrence wanted to heighten...
-
D. H. Lawrence
There are some elements you will not want to miss out in your critical appreciation of the masterly short story 'The Odour of Chrysanthemums' by D H Lawrence. Firstly appreciate how well he sets...
-
D. H. Lawrence
Elizabeth Bates in “The Odour of Chrysanthemums” by D. H. Lawrence and Josephina “Jug” Pinner in “The Daughters of the Late Colonel” by Katherine Mansfield serve as the protagonists of their...
-
D. H. Lawrence
Paul dies because he has driven himself into frenzies until he is weakened. Furthermore, Paul's death is Lawrence's cautionary observation on the misdirection of one's life force as a result of...
-
D. H. Lawrence
In the story, the travelers are often reluctant to dismount from their coach because it is usually very cold outside: to have no protection against the elements is an extremely uncomfortable...
-
D. H. Lawrence
Both stories discuss elements of the supernatural. In "The Red Room", the old couple are telling the story of a haunted red room. In "The Signalman" the signalman is relaying the story of a...
