D. H. Lawrence's animal poems were mainly written between 1920 and 1923, before he finished his last novel Lady Chatterley's Lover. As writings of the mature Lawrence, they express the poet's moral attitude regarding nature, which is basically anti-anthropocentric or biocentric, and which is closely linked to the anti-rationalist Romantic tradition. Through the reading of three of Lawrence's animal poems, the paper presents the poet's deep exploration into nature, especially the internal nature of human beings. It draws attention to a crucial a...
