The significance of the stallion in D.H. Lawrence 's St Mawr

Abstract

D.H. Lawrence's St Mawr (1925) is a very entrancing short novel which talks about a woman and her dissatisfaction with men as whole . It 's a very well – structured story , and one of the wises story as Lawrence presents a clash between the fictional ( the horse ) world , and the real world ( men world ) . Through it , Lawrence creates a world with very few words and with real characters .It is the first of his writings to be set in America on a ranch in Arizona . Lawrence's intention in St Mawr is to show the vitality of a splendid stallion which is lacking in men .For Lawrence , men have abused their own powers , the phallic power embodied in the stallion ,St Mawr , and allowed women to become powerful , the female principle to assume the ascendant .It is quite clear that St Mawr conveys a lament for the loss of maleness , which Lawrence attributes to the modern , mechanistic ,money grubbing world – the world of men .It is only in the face of such a loss that women can become powerful and independent . Lawrence , as a result , presents St Mawr as the antithesis of the modern man .He endows St Mawr with those qualities which are more properly aspects of male principles such as life – power,energy,and courage .The horse figure utterly dominates the whole of St Mawr . The significance of the stallion ,St Mawr , is first imparted to the reader through the heroine's , Lou's , sense of it ; then it is developed and enforced by a wealth of poetic language and dramatic means ;i.e , Lawrence uses poetic language in giving a minute description of the stallion .