Title: Week XIV: D. H. Lawrence - "Snake", “The Gods! The Gods!”, “Willy Wet-Leg". Week XV: T. S. Eliot – “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”; from the The Waste Land.
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💡 Key Points:
- Main Ideas
- Key words
- Questions that connect points
- Important points
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✏️ Notes:
Main lecture notes
D.H Lawrence
- Lawrence celebrates irrational mind and unconscious
- Celebrates the human body over human mind
- Carnal over the merely ideological
- Distrust society and human civilizations
- Glorifies the individual and the individual freedom. Freedom of Choice
- Pantheist, wrote nature poems. elements of nature .
- Distrust puritan doctrine. Middle class consciousness
- How Beastly the Bourgeoisie is?
- Very Freudian works but Lawrence admitted that he never read Freud in his life
- God is both spirit and matter. God is one and many. Material god but he hates the materialism of middle class
- Modernist in his early carrier , Images tendencies, but after became
- School of New Criticism Structuralism Ferdinand Saussure-
- Barren and exhausted individual
- He married for a while actress name Vivian but she underwent a nervous breakdown and Lawrence also underwent a nervous breakdown
- Refusal of Romantic subjectivity
- Free Verse
- Individual over society
- Nature vs Civilization
- Robotic - mechanical- without emotions
- Dreary- sad- melancholic
- Plural gods pantheistic
- He criticized the christian doctrine
- he lets you hit twice
- He prefers non conformist
- he criticize passive education
- everyone should act not be passive
- he applies what he indoctrinating
Snake
- Snake appears like volcano…
- Sicily Etna Mountain
- conflict between rational and irrational
- Admiring the snake
- Golden brown snake
- such snake must be killed at first sight
- id and the super ego
- albatros imagery (collridge)
T.S Elliot
- French symbolist
- Later he converted to Catholicism
- He searched for God and found it in Catholics
(he probably earned lots of money, he already hated middle class protestants, so he became Catholic)
- Fragmented distant self
- He was a very good critic and also a playwright, poet
- He was appreciated for his critical works
- Tradition and Individual Talent (if you are interested and understand his mind, read)
- School of New Criticism logocentric
- Transcended binary
- Logo centrism
- impersonal distant self
- distance between poetic reading and self
- objective co relative
- a set of concrete objects and images used, in order to convey emotion
- (Nesnel imgelerle duyguyu vermek işte)
Meaning is extra linguistic
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Use of free verse and lack of pattern
- Incoherent self
- social anxiety
- The post-cartesian self (descartes self)
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📎 Summary:
A brief summary and conclusion about the notes/lecture
D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930): Themes and Ideologies
D.H. Lawrence was a bold and unconventional writer who celebrated individual freedom, the irrational mind, and the human body, often in opposition to societal norms and middle-class values. His works emphasize a return to primal instincts and a connection with nature while critiquing the sterility of modern civilization.
Key Themes and Philosophies
- Irrational Mind and Unconscious:
- Pantheism and Nature:
- Critique of Middle-Class Consciousness:
- Freudian Influence:
- Individual Freedom and Nonconformity:
Analysis of Key Works
The Gods! The Gods!
- Themes:
- Form and Tone:
- Nature vs. Civilization:
Willy Wet-Leg
Snake
- Themes:
- Imagery and Symbolism:
- Psychoanalytic Lens:
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Week XIV: D. H. Lawrence - "Snake", “The Gods! The Gods!”, “Willy Wet-Leg".
Week XV: T. S. Eliot – “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”; from the The Waste Land.