David Herbert Lawrence’s Poetic Vision of Coming-of-Age Alexander Potako College

David Herbert Lawrence is one of the key English writers of the twentieth century even despite the fact that his works were often refused to be published and were considered to be obscene. The issue of his poetic works, as well as of the prose, is that Lawrence in his writings kept encouraging his contemporaries to open themselves to the "dark gods" of the instinctive perception of nature, emotionality, and sexuality. Despite his poetry was quite diverse in terms of the subject matter, mood, and themes addressed, they are also some typical characteristics that might be related to his poetic works in general. Apart from common sentimentality and hedonism, among the similarities between Lawrence’s ‘Piano’ and ‘Butterfly’ are also the motif of childhood and a paternal house that are discussed in both texts and the signature sharp language to obtain the vividness of visual images in the text.

In ‘Piano’, there is an explicit feeling of nostalgia expressed. The overall picture the reader of the poem might imagine is a vision of a warm cozy house with a “tinkling piano” as a guide. This image refers directly to one’s ideas of what a happy childhood looks like and this whole vision is like a pleasant dream of the past for the...