Ballad of Another Ophelia

Description

A short poem mostly about nature, fruit bearing trees as the bright green apples, stack yard animals like the brown hen, marigold bird, the beastly grey rat who ate one of the thirteen golden birds. This poem is somewhat a metaphor of lovers where the grey rat is the man and the marigold bird is the woman. Perhaps, it implies devouring of someone’s power.

David Herbert Lawrence was an author, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter from England. His artistic collection of works symbolizes a lengthy contemplation on the debasing consequences of modernism and economic development. A few of the matters he deals with are sexuality, emotional health, life itself, openness, and disposition.

He made a lot of enemies with his views and he suffered official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his productive work all through the later part of his life, mostly exhausted in a voluntary exile he described as his savage pilgrimage. When he died, his public repute was that of an obscene person who had misused his significant flairs. E. M. Forster, in an obituary remark, disputed this largely alleged notion, depicting him as “The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation.” Cambridge critic F. R. Leavis then defended both his creative veracity and his ethical importance, enlisting most of the author’s works within the canonical “great tradition” of the English writing.

Though he was most famous for his books, Lawrence wrote about 800 poems, much of those are rather of brevity. His poems, Dreams Old and Dreams Nascent, were two of his initial publications in The English Review.
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