"The English Are So Nice" by DH Lawrence
After reading many of Lawrence's poem it is obvious that he uses poetry as a symbol for something else. Many times he is speaking about politics and the norm that everyone is tending to go by. DH is a very unique person because he goes completely against the norm of his time. In this poem I immediately picked up a sense of sarcasm in his tone. After getting to know poetry a little better, I have realized that there is definitely a number of possible meanings for every poem. There is usually a literal meaning and a symbolic. In most of Lawrence's poems I believe in the symbolic; however, in this poem I agree with both the symbolic and the literal. My reasoning behind the literal side is for his ability to make sarcasm his literal point. On the contrary, my reasoning behind the sybolism would be him trying to describe the English government and the way they make other outsider's view them.
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