Oh, but she is the woman of a lifetime. (The Collection of Lawrence’s Letters 37)
I love you. Let us face anything, put up with anything. But this crawling under the mud I cannot bear. (A Preface to D. H. Lawrence 33)
I didn’t want people, I didn’t want anything, and I only wanted to revel in this new world Lawrence had given me. (A Preface to D. H. Lawrence 33)原文请+QQ3249,114辣.文^论,文'网
The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one’s wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great-quite good-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it. (A Preface to D. H. Lawrence 33)
Through their words we could see how much they loved each other. On 3 May 1912, Lawrence and Frieda left England for Germany.
But their happiness was not entirely unclouded. Frieda’s husband refused to give her a divorce and the news that her children were unhappy made Frieda tense with grief and anxiety. She had gone back to look after her sister’s children and Lawrence fretted at their separation and her longing. There were many bitter quarrels.
By the late June 1914, Lawrence and Frieda were reunited in England; they were married on 13 July 1914. And he wrote to Mrs. Hopkin:
I don’t feel a changed man, but I suppose I am one. (The Collection of Lawrence’s Letters 158)
1.4 During the War Years毕业论文http://www.751com.cn/
In England at war, from 1914 to 1915, these two years was the hardest time for Lawrence.
He would have taken some time returning home to London. On 3 August 1914, the decision to mobilize was taken; the government announced that the bank holiday was being extended to Friday morning, and the state took over the railway system for troop transports. Vast numbers of army reservists were being called up, as Lawrence had seen. When he did get back he found everything changing with astonishing speed.
To prove it, he received back the typescript of ‘The Wedding Ring’ from his publisher. Methuen had returned the novel, like most of their recently submitted fiction, to be resubmitted in six months’ time. When they hoped the economic and business situation would have stabilized, though they also made some criticisms of the book’s sexual outspokenness.
This meant that it would be months before Lawrence would get the money due on its publication, on which he had been relying. He and Frieda had been spending a great deal since June; they had run through the advance.
The outbreak of war made it impossible for the moment to go back to the Continent and the projected trip to Ireland did not materialize. All they could do was find somewhere cheap to live outside London, where Lawrence could write his Hardy book and they could wait for the war to end.
What is going to become of us?
It seems like another life. We were happy, for men•••••• and since then, since I came back, things have not existed for me, and nobody existed, because I did not exist myself. (A Preface to D. H. Lawrence 41)
At this time, Lawrence was confused and scared. The war made his life in ruins.
After the declaration of war, Lawrence wrote:
‘the war is just hell for me. I don’t see why I should be so disturbed – but I am. I can’t get away from it for a minute, live in a sort of coma, like one of those nightmares when you can’t move.’