D.H.LAWRENCE'S SENSITIVITY: THE LIFE FORCE OF NATURE

In 1922 DH Lawrence spent some time in New Zealand. Somewhere on his visit to the southern hemisphere DH must have seen the whales that pass on their migration routes every year, north from the antarctic, and then south on a long pilgrimage to breed and feed. 
 New Zealand is regularly visited by the southern Right Whale, Humpbacks, Blue whales and Orca, and the 3,000 metre deep trench off the Pacific coast is home to a number of bachelor Sperm whales who feed on the giant squid that lurk in the darkness.  
He believed in the life force, in Nature, its beauty and its power, as this beautiful poem, Whales weep not, attests. 

"They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains
the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.

All the whales in the wider deeps, hot are they, as they urgeon and on, and dive beneath the icebergs........."

Click here to read the poem Whales weep not, which was written after his moving encounter with the giant mammals and watch this video.