VITALISTIC AND EXISTENTIAL ONTOLOGY IN D. H. LAWRENCE'S SELECTED POEMS (1885-1930)

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Department of English- Faculty of Arts - Assiut University

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This paper is philosophical-literary work. It depicts D. H. Lawrence's ontological philosophy as a combination of two types of different ontological philosophy related to Bergson (1859 -1941) and Heidegger (1889 – 1976). Lawrence links these two philosophies by using the idea of unconsciousness. He divides the human unconsciousness horizontally and vertically. The horizontal line divides it into subjective and objective centres whereas the vertical line into sympathetic and voluntary centres. The sympathetic centres show how a human can feel his/her vitalistic ontology throughout his/her compassionate relationship with others as in Lawrence’s poems Mosquito, War-Baby, At the Front, and the first part of Manifesto. The voluntary centres show how a Man can feel his/her existentialistic ontology throughout his/her separation from others as reflected in Lawrence’spoems the second part of his poem Manifesto in addition to three poems: Love on the farm, The Triumph of Machine, and the Ship of Death. 

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