Money Madness Essay

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Money Madness” by D.H. Lawrence is one of the important poems of his time. It presents a personalized view of the horror of money. It also critically evaluate rush affluences of Money that are visible all around us. It becomes a powerful player in societies of today and holds more importance than anything else in the modern day lifestyle. So that the poet has tried to exemplify money madness in the society and how it degenerate social and moral values of society. In the poem Lawrence's says that wherever we look there is madness for money, infect wealth inverts control him. So there fore he used money used as a metaphor for the word madness. And this madness is not on small or individualistic levels. It is the madness of the multitude, in numbers unimaginable and at levels incredible. And since the multitude as a whole is mad, so every person in this world carries his share of this madness. His share of this insane race after money, the poet doubts that there exists a human in this world who hands out a pound note to someone without feeling a pang at heart. No matter how noble he may feel while giving away that note. His heart always wishes if only he could do all that good without having to take out a note from his own pocket. And when that note turns to a ten-pound note, we experience real tremors within us. We tremble from inside while giving away that note, as if we have been robbed. Money makes us kneel in front of it. It makes us fearful, and a sense of apprehension and stress grips us as we try to overcome a loss as materialistic and small as ten-pounds. It has an exaggerating power to influence our life. The poet goes on to say that if one has no money, the World would give him little money, only enough to perhaps buy a piece of bread, in the name of humanity. But even this small offering doesn’t come for free. He has to eat dirt to get it, suffering
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