D. H. Lawrence Flashcards
Wyndham Lewis
‘art must be organic with its time’
Why the Novel Matters
self is both the body and the mind
‘my hand is absolutely alive, me alive’
books reflect life
‘Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the ehole man alive tremble’
‘We likewise in life have got to live, or we are nothing’
Odour of Chrysanthemums
about class, psychology
Elizabeth’s husband Walter goes missing, it transpires that he has been trapped in the mines
O of C quotes
‘She was a tall woman of imperious mien, handsome, with definite black eyebrows’
‘the smoke from the engine sank and cleaved to the rough grass. The fields were dreary and forsaken’
‘The pit-bank loomed up beyond the pons, flames like red sores licking its ashy sides’
‘ “I hear as Walter’s got another bout on” ‘
‘ “Sphyxiated […] shut him in, like a mouse-trap”
both become she when washing his body
‘she submitted to life which was her immediate master. But from death, her ultimate master, she winced with fear and shame.’
symbolism quotes
’ “Don’t they smell beautiful?” ‘
‘ “It was chrysanthemums when I married him […] and the first time they brought him home drunk, he’s got brown chrysanthemums in his button-hole” ‘
stops John from destroying them but breaks off a twig and holds them against her face
‘There was a cold, deathly smell of chrysanthemums in the room’
inability to communicate
’ “I do think it’s beautiful to look in the fire” ‘
‘ “Do you […] why?” ‘
goes from being his mother to the ‘old woman’
‘‘she knew she had never seen him, he had never seen her, they had met in the dark and fought in the dark’
General criticism
Critics consider his short stories the most economical of his writings
Not the repetition of his earlier works
Ford Madox Ford
‘My secretary looked up and said ‘You’ve got another genius?’ I answered: ‘it’s a big one this time.’ ‘
