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 Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven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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... Great Britain . 6. Soldiers - Great Britain - Biography . 7. War neuroses- Patients - Biography . I. Title . II . Series . PR6013.R35 Z729 2002 821'.912 - dc21 [ B ] 2001053192 This book is for Alice Lovers and madmen have such.
... neurosis . " Such disorienta- tion , hauntings , and compulsiveness were recorded by innumerable writ- ers and artists , from Hemingway and cummings to Sassoon and Graves among the Allies . Their opponents told similar tales of being ...
... neurosis caused him to have hallu- cinations . He , without a doubt , would say that his neurosis allowed him to see what reason prevented him from seeing . He 7 THE LUNATIC , THE LOVER , AND THE POET.
... neurosis " and " neurasthenia . " In his first bombardment , the experience of what was doubtless the first of many concussions made his chest " sing , " too , and caused him to lose his equilibrium . He was ashamed when the sergeant ...
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