The Poetry of D.H. Lawrence Literary Elements

The Poetry of D.H. Lawrence Literary Elements

Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View

The action in the poem "A love song" is told from the perspective of a first-person subjective point of view.

Form and Meter

The poem "Snake" has no form and meter because the poem is written in free verse.

Metaphors and Similes

The term flower is used in the poem "Lies about Love" as a metaphor for love. This metaphor has the purpose of transmitting the idea that love can grow easily and also that it is an extremely fragile feeling.

Alliteration and Assonance

We find an alliteration in the line "It must be wonderful to live and grow old./ Look at my mother, how rich and still she is! " in the poem "Beautiful Old Age".

Irony

The narrator points an ironic element in the poem "A Winter's Tale". In this poem, the narrator points out that the lover continues to come closer to him even though she knows nothing will good out of their encounter.

Genre

The term "Snake" is a meditative poem.

Setting

The action taking place in the poem "A Love Song" is situated inside the narrator's bedroom.

Tone

The tone used in the poem "Snake" is a violent one.

Protagonist and Antagonist

The protagonist in the poem "Snake" is the narrator and the antagonist is the snake.

Major Conflict

The major conflict in "A Love Song" is an internal one that resulted from the narrator's desire to be with his lover and the availability to do so because of the circumstances in which he finds himself.

Climax

The poem "Snake" reaches its climax when the snake disappears after the narrator throws a log at it.

Foreshadowing

N/A

Understatement

At the beginning of the poem "Beautiful Old Age," the narrator claims that old people are extremely happy. This is however proved to be an understatement towards the end of the poem when the narrator lists all the problems old people have to deal with.

Allusions

One of the main allusions in the poem "Lies about love" is the idea that what a person says can never be trusted and a person should always try to get every word in writing if it is possible.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

The term "sleep" is used in almost all of the poems as a general term to make reference to the idea of ignorance.

Personification

We have a personification in the poem "Tease" in the line "masculine machinery".

Hyperbole

We have a hyperbole in the poem "Tease" in the lines "When I hear you jingling through /All the chambers of my soul,".

Onomatopoeia

We have an instance of onomatopoeia in the line "I do forget the sounding of your voice," in the poem "A Love Song".

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