The Early Poetry of Robert Graves: The Goddess BeckonsUniversity of Texas Press, 06.11.2013 - 192 Seiten Like many men of his generation, poet Robert Graves was indelibly marked by his experience of trench warfare in World War I. The horrific battles in which he fought and his guilt over surviving when so many perished left Graves shell-shocked and disoriented, desperately seeking a way to bridge the rupture between his conventional upbringing and the uncertainties of postwar British society. In this study of Graves's early poetry, Frank Kersnowski explores how his war neurosis opened a door into the unconscious for Graves and led him to reject the essential components of the Western idea of reality—reason and predictability. In particular, Kersnowski traces the emergence in Graves's early poems of a figure he later called "The White Goddess," a being at once terrifying and glorious, who sustains life and inspires poetry. Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven by the purpose of celebrating and explaining this deity and her matriarchy. |
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... clear he was leaving with Nicholson , Riding stepped out of the window of a fourth- story flat and broke her back . As Robert and Nancy's daughter Catherine Dalton told me in May of 2000 , Riding had tried to persuade her , then six ...
... clearly juvenile work , of interest only because it indicates the continued popularity of poetry best written by the young Yeats , because it contrasts so strongly with the poetry in the second section , and because it depicts a life ...
... clearly when Aldington published Lawrence of Arabia : A Bio- graphical Enquiry ( 1955 ) . Aldington not only discussed Lawrence's ho- mosexuality , but also questioned the veracity of his representation of his military and political ...
... clear the reason : " To winter nights knee - deep in mud or snow , / And you've been everything " ( 30 ) . The poet holds to the past , but the present is like a deep bruise , con- stantly and continuously painful . By this time ...
... clearly puzzled by this portrayal of the moon , so different from the " Jolly Yellow Moon " of the " Charterhouse " section : The breath of night blows soft indeed , And the jolly yellow moon doth shine . ( 10 ) However , there is no ...
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