Analysis of Dreams

Analysis of Dreams

Before comprehending and analysising Lawrence's poem Dreams, it is necessary to know about the Lawrence and his poetry.

Lawrence's early works clearly placed him in the school of Georgian poets, a group named after the romantic poets of the previous Georgian period whose work they were trying to emulate. Lawrence's poems of the time, were well-worn poetic tropes and deliberately archaic language. Many of these poems displayed the "pathetic fallacy", which is the tendency to ascribe human emotions to animals and even inanimate objects. During World War I , Lawrence's own work saw a dramatic change. He wrote free verse influenced by Walt Whitman . Although Lawrence's works after his Georgian period are clearly in the modernist tradition, they were often very different to many other modernist writers, Lawrence felt all poems had to be personal sentiments and that spontaneity was vital for any work. ( from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._H._Lawrence). His poems fall rough into three categories: satirical and comic poems, poems about human relationships and emotions and poems about nature.

In terms of the content, Lawrence describe two kinds of people who dream unequally. Some people dream at night in confusion only to find the dream was fantasy. The other kind dream with their mind active and thinking and finally make their dreams come true. In terms of the stlye, it seems to be a free verse without over-worked rythem.

In my deep comprhension, the author described not merely these two kinds of people by their ways of dreaming but also described two kinds of attitude by compare and contrast. Dreams here seem to be a series of mental images and emotions. However, in further