Analysis of The Song of a Man Who has Come Through

David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)



Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me!
A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.
If only I let it bear me, carry me, if only it carry me!
If only I am sensitive, subtle, oh, delicate, a winged gift!
If only, most lovely of all, I yield myself and am borrowed
By the fine, fine wind that takes its course though the chaos of the world
Like a fine, and exquisite chisel, a wedge-blade inserted;
If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedge
Diven by invisible split, we shall come at the wonder, we shall find the Hesperides.

Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul,
I would be a good fountain, a good well-head,
Would blur no whisper, spoil no expression.

What is the knocking?
What is the knocking at the door in the night?
It's somebody wants to do us harm.

No, no, it is the three strange angels.
Admit them, admit them.


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Poetic Form
Metre 11111011111 0111100101011 110111111011101101 11011100101100011 11011011111011 1011111111010101 101010010011010 110111011011101 10101001111101011101 110101100111 11101100111 1111011010 11010 11010101001 11011111 111101110 011011
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 849
Words 171
Sentences 12
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 9, 3, 3, 2
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 163
Words per stanza (avg) 42
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David Herbert Lawrence

David Herbert Lawrence was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. Lawrence's writing explores issues such as sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct. Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage". At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as "the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." Later, the literary critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness. more…

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