...long-skirted coat. All life carried on your shoulder, Invincible fore-runner. 80 Bavarian Gentians Not every man has gentians in his house in soft September,...torch-like, with their blaze of darkness spread blue 5 down flattening into points, flattened under the sweep of white day torch-flower of the blue-smoking...

...chance with one of the lords Of life. And I have something to expiate; A pettiness. BAVARIAN GENTIANS Not every man has gentians in his house in Soft September,...into points, flattened under the sweep of white day torch-fiower of the blue-smoking darkness, Pluto's dark-blue daze, black lamps from the halls of Dis,...

...Ultimate Master MINING, MANHOOD, AND MORBIDITY IN DH LAWRENCE'S "ODOUR OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS" Peter Balbert Bavarian gentians, big and dark, only dark darkening...torch-like with the smoking blueness of Pluto's gloom DH Lawrence, "Bavarian Gentians" There is strong consensus on the precocious excellence of DH Lawrence's...

...cypresses ... supple, brooding, softly-swaying pillars of dark flame'; and also 'Bavarian Gentians' (1929): 'Bavarian gentians, big and dark, only dark/ darkening...torch-like with the smoking blueness of Pluto's gloom' (Complete Poems, i. 296-7, I1. 17, 37 and ii. 697, 11. 3-4). 155:5 angels in rapture. For DHL, an extreme...

...delicate-colour'd blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green, A sprig with its flower I break. ( 1 1-17) Bavarian gentians, big and dark, only dark darkening...flattening into points, flattened under the sweep of the white day torch-flower of the blue-smoking darkness, Pluto's dark-blue daze, black lamps from the...

...not approve. And I am not resigned. EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY AMERICAN (1892-1950) Bavarian Gentians Not every man has gentians in his house in soft September,...Bavarian gentians, big and dark, only dark darkening of the day-time torch-like with the smoking blueness of Pluto's gloom, ribbed and torch-like, with...

...acquire freedom in his expression in 'Bavarian Gentians.' The poem begins with the lines quoted below: in soft September, at slow, sad Michaelmas. Bavarian gentians, big and dark, only dark Page 354 darkening the day-time, torch-like with the smoking blueness of Pluto's gloom, ribbed and...

...Gentians' (CP, 697). Like 'Snake', 'Bavarian Gentians' begins modestly, with the casual observation that 'Not every man has gentians in his house / in soft September, at slow, sad Michaelmas'. But then, as the poet builds through waves of what he once called the 'continual, slightly modified...

...us to feel anything at all you'd better abandon all idea of feelings altogether. Bavarian Gentians Not every man has gentians in his house in Soft September,...torchlike, with their blaze of darkness spread blue 5 down flattening into points, flattened under the sweep of white day torch-flower of the blue-smoking...

...(84) La nave là sul mare (85) e il cavallo sulla montagna. 45 DH LAWRENCE (1929) Bavarian Gentians Not every man has gentians in his house in Soft September,...the daytime torchlike with the smoking blueness of Pluto' s gloom, ribbed and torchlike, with their blaze of darkness spread blue down flattening into...