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 Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven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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... memory's windy zones, Flies back to inspire one limbstrewn skeleton Of thousands inhervalley ofdry bones. There as those liferestored battalionsshout Succession flagsand Timegoes maimedin flight: From each livegullet twentyswansglide ...
... memory of Cap- tain A. L. Samson and reserves for him in heaven the fox and hounds but does not turn aside from the harshness , and bravery , of his death : We saw that , dying and in hopeless case , For others ' sake that day He'd ...
... memories of Wordsworth " and that with his uncle , C. L. Graves of " The Spectator , " had been trying to mold him into that " out- worn tradition . " Against these influences , he hoped Marsh would provide direction and encouragement ...
... memory of such traumatic and youthful experiences is at times faulty , at odds with the facts . Sassoon and Blunden were not forgiving , as indicated by their marginalia in a copy of the 1929 edition of Good - Bye To All That . In his ...
... memories . Graves gave one possible cause in A Survey of Modernist Poetry : War - poetry was Georgianism's second - wind , for the contrast between the grinding hardships of trench - service - which as a matter of fact none of the early ...
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