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 Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven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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... It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; Or in the night , imagining some fear , How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! A Midsummer Night's Dream ( V : 1 : 4-22 ) CONTENTS Preface xi Acknowledgments CHAPTER I XV THE LUNATIC ,
... the Graves's kitchen , and back in touch with the books written by Graves , I once again met the friend who had turned my fears and dreams into poetry and prose that stunned with its force and accuracy 4 THE EARLY POETRY OF ROBERT GRAVES.
... 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 irritation , and probably un- willing to sully ...
... " On Finding Myself a Soldier " does somewhat allay fear , simply by pro- viding a peaceful image . Of great importance is the inability of the peace- ful image to endure . It is overcome by the 16 THE EARLY POETRY OF ROBERT GRAVES.
... fears of experiences that were too intense for a sane man . In this poem , images of a war almost ten years past so trouble Graves that he remains unrelieved . Curiously , he links his terror with that of chil- dren , as he did ...
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