Analysis of To Women As Far As I'm Concerned

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



The feelings I don't have I don't have.
The feeling I don't have, I won't say I have.
The feelings you say you have, you don't have.
The feelings you would like us both to have, we neither of us have.
The feelings people ought to have, they never have.
If people say they've got feelings, you may be pretty sure they haven't got them.
So if you want either of us to feel anything at all
You'd better abandon all ideas of feelings altogether.


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Poetic Form
Metre 010111111 01011111111 0101111111 0101111111110111 010101111101 1101111011110111011 11111011111011 1100101010110010
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 442
Words 87
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 42
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 337
Words per stanza (avg) 85
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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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