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 Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven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. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies , that ... lover , all as frantic , Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt . The poet's eye , in a fine frenzy rolling , Doth ...
... LOVER , AND THE POET I CHAPTER 2 THE LUNATIC : WAR 28 CHAPTER 3 THE LUNATIC : AFTER THE WAR 50 CHAPTER 4 THE LOVER IN THE NURSERY 79 CHAPTER 5 THE LOVER 100 CHAPTER 6 THE POET 130 Afterword 159 Works Cited 165 Index 170 PREFACE The ...
The Goddess Beckons Frank L. Kersnowski. CHAPTER. 1. THE. LUNATIC,. THE. LOVER,. AND. THE. POET. TheSibyl Her hand falls helpless: thought amazements fly Far overhead, they leave no record mark— Wild swans urged whistling across dazzled sky ...
... lover was set . Though he would respond to many changes in his life and to many new forces , he would hold to the ... lovers , and poets . The story I tell is of a young man driven so mad by the moon that he made her into the heavenly ...
The Goddess Beckons Frank L. Kersnowski. THE EARLY POETRY OF ROBERT GRAVES CHAPTER I THE LUNATIC , THE LOVER , AND THE.
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