The article considers the nature of myth and symbolism in the most experimental novel by В. Н. Lawrence, «The Plumed Serpent», of which he made а kind of a fable of religious rebirth. The traditional Lawrence’s individual myths take п the novel additionai ideological meanings that condense the models and forms of being аnd correspond to the author’s wish to convey the nature, eternity, the sense of change of epochs and generations. Such understanding of myth's functioning т close to Romanticism.