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 Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven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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... 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 completely different from Graves's life at Charterhouse . Per- haps ...
... they may continue for most of one's life — as was the case with Graves . The images of violence continued in Graves's writing , informing such seem- ingly different works as the short story " The Shout 18 THE EARLY POETRY OF ROBERT GRAVES.
... continued to write Georgian poems , Graves became skeptical of the commonsense reality that informed Georgian poetry , rooted as it was in the stable prewar society of England's privileged classes 19 THE LUNATIC , THE LOVER , AND THE POET.
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