Explore The Ways In Which Education Is Presented In D.H. Lawrence's "A Snowy Day In School"

In exam conditions the poem should be analysed first through the vectors of form and content. Form asks questions about cadence, rhythm, timbre - in this discussion we should find the sibilance (which is frequently found in the 'S' sound in this poem), as well as the jolting and irregular structure of the sentences as they cross the lines of the poem. Identifying these characteristics of the form should offer an analytical interpretation of the theme of education. Sibilance connotes something moving softly (but perhaps unflappably). The disjointedness of the sentences may indicate a lack of control or a sense of panic in the speaker.
At this stage one might now think of the content - what is being said? How does this correlate to the ways that the form is operating. The thing that stands out the most in this case would arguably be the antagonistic presentation of the relationship with classmates - whose eyes come 'dark beams which disquiet', causing the speaker to falter in a question about an 'abstract noun'.
This content taken in with account of the form indicates that education is a combative experience for the speaker, one which causes him (or her) some panic - some sense of unease. The combination with snow could be interpreted in a number of ways, but it seems to me that it has some both irrepressible and inhuman about it - much like the experience of education itself seems to have for the speaker.
In this way, by approaching through form and content, an analysis of the poem's themes can be brought together.