snake by D H lorence
Snake" / D.H. Lawrence" Through the poem "snake" D.H. ... Lawrence uses the snake as the main symbol, which emphasizes the conflict between the bourgeois characterized with the boring life which they caught in, and contrary the desires and the instincts we are guided by. The snake is described in the poem in different and converse ways. On the one hand the snake is "like a king" "the lord of life", and on the other hand he is "earth golden" a venomous snake. The critical association of the snake in the Bible is the serpent in the Garden of Eden. ... The snake is also associated with wisdom and intellect, which are presented in the poem as the education voice, demanding to kill the snake and to continue living the routine of their boring life.