Exotic. D.h. Lawrence Creative Imagination

D. H. Lawrence is a great writer who has the consciousness of being prepared for unexpected development and who has the thought of saving the world. Lawrence felt westerner's life is being obsessed by the sickness of western civilization. He wanted to seek a better way of life for modern people.In this paper, I use image theories of comparative literature to analyze the reason, text and further meaning of Lawrence's imagination of alien lands. First of all, I will discuss the reason for forming Lawrence's imagination of alien lands. That is, the First World War made Lawrence believed that the European spirit of place had become effete. He threw his eyes onto other races, other religions and the alien lands which still preserved primitiveness. He reflected about the western civilization and strived for the"Rananim"—Utopia in his heart, through which he hoped to actualize human being's rebirth. Secondly I analyze the imagination of Italy—the south of Europe, Africa, Australia and America in Lawrence's works, in which we can see his refection through his reconstruction of alien lands. This paper concludes the thinking mode of Lawrence's imagination of alien lands. I tend to give readers a whole and deep description and demonstration of Lawrence through his change of thought and his state of ambivalence of his country. Meanwhile the unique value of his works of alien lands is displayed.