D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence’ poem “The English Are So Nice,” is a sarcastic poem. This is no wonder considering the English accused Lawrence of being a spy during World War I. This notion only came about because Lawrence was opposed to the war instead of for it. In Lawrence’s poem “The English Are So Nice,” he sets the sarcastic mood right of the bat. In the first stanza, “The English are so nice/so awfully nice/they’re the nicest people in the world” (line 1-3). In this first stanza alone you get the idea that he is not truly writing about how nice the English really are. Instead he is in fact mocking them in a sense.

This poem demonstrates one of Lawrence’s looser forms of poetry using sarcastic social commentary to portray the point his wishes to make. It is a free flowing poem with mockery and humor as the theme of the poem.