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 Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven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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The Goddess Beckons Frank L. Kersnowski. PREFACE The Argument Robert Graves lived an exciting life . Before he was twenty , he was an offi- cer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers . Before he was thirty , he had fought in the Great War with ...
... In so doing , he rejected the essential components of the Western idea of reality : reason and predictability , the heritage of Aristotle and the glory that was Greece ... of the Goddess , both Graves xii THE EARLY POETRY OF ROBERT GRAVES.
The Goddess Beckons Frank L. Kersnowski. poetry and prose that stunned with its force and accuracy , as in " The Pier- Glass , " that early poem of the succubus : Lost manor where I walk continually A ghost , while yet in woman's flesh ...
The Goddess Beckons Frank L. Kersnowski. Graves did not choose to reprint this poem , which he published in Deca- chord in 1924 , probably for the same reason that his daughter Catherine said he did not speak of having seen the Goddess ...
... in the war . This poem was published as part of " La Bassée , " the second section of Over the Brazier . By then the young man of twenty knew the terms of life in the trenches , yet held ... a young II THE LUNATIC , THE LOVER , AND THE POET.
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