The Repetitive, Meditative Style of Lawrences Birds, Beasts, and Flowe

The Repetitive, Meditative Style of Lawrences Birds, Beasts, and FlowersD. H. Lawrence is not a formalist. He derives his remedy verse style from prolonged experience with imaginative essays in which he objectively and vividly contemplates things, people, and places in their singleness rather than in their blood to each other. Lawrences purpose, according to Gilbert, is dealledge with meditation he essays to know something . . . intuitively . . . obliquely . . . fragmentarily not through orderly ratiocination, but through emotional perception. As his style developed, Lawrences essays became increasingly idiosyncratic, increasingly elliptical, spontaneous and jazzy, as though reflecting the process rather than the product of thought. Gilbert finds Birds, Beasts, and Flowers, Lawrences sixth volume of poetry, written in a casual, improvisational, unfinished style that functions not only if as a means of communication but also as a process of discovery (131-32). Building on G ilberts studies, an examination of Fruits, the first range of the nine-part Birds, Beasts, and Flowers, reveals that Lawrences repetitive, meditative style employs three types of repetition. Fruits, an archetypal sequence about consume fruit and being changed by its magical properties, admits readers into Lawrences meditations and his Blakeian journey to the natural domain of a function (Gilbert 333). The poet/narrator tantalizes his prissy countrymen by suggestively dangling fruits that hold a incomprehensible that can be experienced with the senses, but cannot be grasped intellectually (Lockwood 105). Lawrence accomplishes his poetical journey through revisions of myths. The opening poem, Pomegranate, which alludes to the myth of Pers... ...h life with family and friends (Unterecker 241). Works CitedFrench, Roberts W. Lawrence and American Poetry. The Legacy of D. H. Lawrence, Jeffrey Meyers, ed. New York St. Martins P, 1987. 109-34. Gilbert, Sandra M. Acts of Atten tion The Poems of D. H. Lawrence. Carbondale Southern Illinois UP, 1990. Lawrence, D. H. Birds, Beasts, and Flowers. New York Thomas Seltzer, 1923. Lockwood, M. J. A Study of the Poems of D. H. Lawrence Thinking in Poetry. Houndsmills, England MacMillan P, 1987. Murfin, Ross C. The Poetry of D. H. Lawrence Texts and Contexts. Lincoln U of nor-east P, 1983. Unterecker, John. Of Father, of Son On Fergus Falling, After Making Love We Hear Footsteps, and Angling, a Day. On the Poetry of Galway Kinnell The Wages of Dying, Howard Nelson, ed. Ann Arbor U of Michigan P, 1987. 227-41.