D. H. Lawrence "The Triumph of the Machine" Poem animation

Heres a virtual movie of D. H. Lawrence reading his beautiful poem "The Triumph of the Machine" Published posthumously after his death in 1930 this poem apparently pessimistic in outlook actualy offers the optimism of nature triumphing over mankinds mechanisation of the planet and a world where nature can live harmoniously again with a mankind unshackled by the constraints imposed by an industrialised world. Lawrence could hardly have imagined the technology driven world we find ourselves in now in the 21st century where we stand on the cusp of information technology becoming our teacher and our enslaver as the positive side of the equation ie easy access to knowledge becomes ever more available throughout the world whilst at the same time that same technology which ever more becomes capable of storing every detail about us becomes a tool for controlling us. Perhaps Lawrence will be proven right and nature oneday will take back all that imposed by human mechanisation of the planet in such a short space of time and nature and the unshackled human spirit will be returned to a more more harmonious coexistence.

David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885 -- 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, and instinct.

Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage."[1] At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as, "The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation."[2] Later, the influential Cambridge critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness, placing much of Lawrence's fiction within the canonical "great tradition" of the English novel. Lawrence is now valued by many as a visionary thinker and significant representative of modernism in English literature.

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