Whales Weep Not! This is a great example of Lawrence's love for animals, and his love of speaking through animals. "They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent." People naturally associate anything within the sea as having cold blood, but Lawrence states that on the contrary, Whales are warm-blooded. This is not to challenge any scientific findings or studies, but to say that Whales are not cold blooded, maniachal animals. They are very caring and nurturing, like our own mothers are, "in the tropics tremble they with love and roll with massive, strong desire, like gods." People are often intimidated by animals, because of their size, speed, or power.
What people forget, and what Lawrence reiterates is that animals are very much like people. Like people, they feel, and they hurt, but Lawrence begs them to not weep. Whales must not weep because they are a living testament to life itself. They are the beginning, "great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies." -- They are also the end, "where God is also love, but without words."
Lawrence makes a reference to the Greek Goddess Aphrodite. He states, "and Aphrodite is the wife of whales
most happy, happy she!"
He also makes reference to the Roman Goddess Venus, "and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin
she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea/she is the female tunny-fish, round and happy among the males/and dense with happy blood, dark rainbow bliss in the sea."
Aphrodite is the Greek Goddess of Love, Beauty, Pleasure, and Procreation. Venus is her Roman counterpart. What Lawrence is asserting here is that Whales embody the very same attributes of the Greek Goddess Aphrodite/Roman Goddess Venus.
They represent Love, Beauty, Pleasure, and Procreation. Whales are the beginning of creation and the end of creation as well.
What people forget, and what Lawrence reiterates is that animals are very much like people. Like people, they feel, and they hurt, but Lawrence begs them to not weep. Whales must not weep because they are a living testament to life itself. They are the beginning, "great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies." -- They are also the end, "where God is also love, but without words."
Lawrence makes a reference to the Greek Goddess Aphrodite. He states, "and Aphrodite is the wife of whales
most happy, happy she!"
He also makes reference to the Roman Goddess Venus, "and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin
she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea/she is the female tunny-fish, round and happy among the males/and dense with happy blood, dark rainbow bliss in the sea."
Aphrodite is the Greek Goddess of Love, Beauty, Pleasure, and Procreation. Venus is her Roman counterpart. What Lawrence is asserting here is that Whales embody the very same attributes of the Greek Goddess Aphrodite/Roman Goddess Venus.
They represent Love, Beauty, Pleasure, and Procreation. Whales are the beginning of creation and the end of creation as well.