Sense and Imagination in D.H. Lawrence

Pages:166-167
Vinod Kumar (Research Scholar, Singhainia University, Pacheri Beri, Jhunjhnu)

Sometimes man makes more sense to man when he looks like an animal-or another man, or a woman, or just anything other than himself. The human being is the strangest of all animals, because of the phenomenon called thought. Reaching beyond our personal capsule of life might make us completely free. Such is the manic truth, the reflection of himself, that D.H. Lawrence thrusts forward in the collections of essays entitled “Phoenix” and “Phoenix II.” The processes of his mind invite inquiry. To Lawrence, conversation with a person is seldom the best way to know that person. Rather, we come to know a person more fully by a process of reading him-absorbing the subtleties of his life, and extrapola-ting these into a portrait of his mind. In his writing, Lawrence grants the opportunity for us to read him, in the very literal way, so that we might come to know his own mind more fully.