Power And Imagination In D. H. Lawrence's Short Stories

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D.H. Lawrence is a curiously uneven writer. There is no novelist or short writer who shows more obvious signs of power and imagination in today’s literary world. One of his greatest gifts is his power of description; especially of natural description in active quick pros, unforced and vivid. His short stories are particularly forceful; they seem to contain so much on their rather limited scale; they seem to be overflowing with the essence of the author and they seem to leave the reader with the essence of expressionism of the author and they seem to leave the reader with an unrestrained curiosity to read a lot more even after the end comes; as if the ending was not sufficient. His stories display a kind of poetic symbolism and emotional rhythm …show more content…

Ted and Elsie could be best described an poetic distinctive terms as the energies - the “frictional, seething, resistant, explosive, blind sort and forest energy” – that of Ted’s still and softly powerful, tender, frail bud tips and fingers ends full of awareness and this lends to the two factors – “the dominating” and “the dominator”. The dominating theme is starkly seen here, the struggle between man and woman, between man and himself, to effect a balance that will make both sides richer more complete and self-fulfilled. The new relationship emerging will some sort of tenderness, sensitive and caring. This outer nutshell seems to be the essence, the core of the White Stocking”. Once again Lawrence manages to strike us as the master writer showing remarkable indictment of some of the false values of modern life: he refused to write of the main activities of the contemporary world. As Vernon Lee says, ”He sees more than a human being ought to see “wherever he looked he saw more than a human being ought to see; saw more and therefore loved and hated more“, whether it be “The White Stocking” with its theme as that of domestic inbalance, as of “The Fox” with the queer surroundings or “Odour of Chrysanthemum” Lawrence manages to come as of his motto “ART FOR MY SAKE” – he sure

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