Lawrence's "Snake": An Analysis In D.H. Lawrence's poem entitled "Snake," he examines the differences between feelings and education. He expresses this theme in three ways. The speaker knows that he should kill the snake, he questions his own manliness, and tries to hit it with a log. The speaker in this poem learns that if you listen to your feelings then you will be a lot better off in life. D.H. Lawrence does an excellent job of displaying this theme through this poem and this is one of the reasons that he is one of the most prolific English writers of the twentieth century. The first time h