urality of his character. He detested modern society but continued trying to create a better colony. He was torn between his pagan aspects and the Christian and Puritan ones so evident within him as well. His passion was intensely felt and, even though he was convinced that there is no real human connection, which is why the artists puts his energies and passion into his work, he was quite adept at forming social relationships. However, Lawrence knew of this plurality through his own existence, living the artistic life as fully as possible, “He knew by actual experience that the real writer is an essentially separate being, who must not desire to meet and mingle and who betrays himself when he hankers too yearningly after common human fulfillments…Lawrence certainly suffered his whole life from the essential solitude to which his gift condemned him… ‘What ails me,’ he wrote to the psychologists, Dr. Trigant Burrow, ‘is the absolute frustration of my primeval societal instinct…I think social instinct much deeper than sex instinct-and societal repression much more devastating. There is no repression of the sexual individual comparable to the repression of the societal man in me, by the individual ego, my own and everybody else’s,” (Aldington 20).
Others, like Hardy also made an impact on Lawrence’s worldview. Lawrence was determined to put his inner daimon on the written page, and he did it as nakedly as any author might. In his opinion, Walt Whitman was a significant influence and one of the few writers breaking any trails or being a pioneer in the artistic sense of the word, “Whitman, the one pioneer. And only Whitman. No English pioneers. No French. No European pioneer-poets,” (Banerjee 52). Obviously Whitman’s preoccupation with the whole, natural self and his antipathy for the dehumanization of modern society were elements with which Lawrence related. Lawrence also influenced others, li...