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 Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven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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... explaining thematriarchy and its deity. PerhapsGraves's biography could be written fromsuch a perspective, butit has not been. The tracking and equating of the detailsofhis life with his spiritual commitment would strain any scholar's ...
... explaining the matriarchy and its deity . Perhaps Graves's biography could be written from such a perspective , but it has not been . The tracking and equating of the details of his life with his spiritual commitment would strain any ...
... explaining his poetic technique . What he termed " associative " and " non - linear " thinking would separate Graves from the Georgians and place him among the writers championed by the Woolfs . Though he would cease to rely on the ...
... explained his abstinence as caused by a fear of contracting venereal disease , certainly a sensible excuse , though not one to make him better liked by the other officers . Without doubt , he was shy , puritanical to the point of ...
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