A COMMENTARY UP ON D.H.LAWRENCE'S ROCKING-HORSE WINNER AND THINGS

Year 1998, Volume: 38 Issue: 1-2, 41 - 56, 01.01.1998

Ufuk Ege

Abstract

In this article, a commentary upon D.H. Lawrence's Rocking-Horse Winner and Things is presented and through the relationship between his vocabularies and content in the aforementioned works, Lawrence's style is analysed. it is concluded that, Lawrence uses fairy tale and social satire elements and both simple and symbolic words are used for repetitive and didactic purposes.

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