Malformation of Woman Image in D.H. Lawrence's Selected Poems

Abstract

This study is an attempt to reveal some specific traits used by the western poets in general and D.H. Lawrence in particular to portray a distort image about the western woman. The poet talks about the woman in general without specifying a certain race or nationality. Such generalization is unfair with multitude negativity which is baring. This paper is divided into three sections.

The first section is an introduction, definitions and a psychoanalytical theoretical background of the literary techniques utilized by the poet to achieve his purposes in giving a deformed portrait of women. The theorists are Jacques Lacan, Erik Erikson and Otto Fenichel whose ideas enhance the argument of this study. While, the second section tackles a comprehensive literary critical study of some of Lawrence's poems. The studied poems are an incarnation to his tendentious thinking against women in general. This study aims to defend and expose such queer human beings' minds. Finally, the third section summarizes the major findings of the study besides presenting some advices to overcome such unfair previously intended wrong pictures about women.