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 Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven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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... poetic awareness from his firstvolume, OvertheBrazier, to Poems (1914–1926). During this discrete time, hiscourse as poet andlover wasset. Thoughhe would respond to many changes inhis lifeandto manynew forces,he would hold to the ...
... poet Are of imagination all compact One sees more devils than vast hell can hold : That is the madman . The lover , all as frantic , Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt . The poet's eye , in a fine frenzy rolling , Doth glance from ...
... 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 Argument Robert ...
... POET. TheSibyl Her hand falls helpless: thought amazements fly Far overhead, they leave no record mark— Wild swans urged whistling across dazzled sky, Or Gabriel hounds in chorus through the dark Yet whenshe prophesies, each spirit swan ...
... poetic self and talent , which were inseparable and often not evident in the day - to - day life made public by his biographers . Graves very early made his poetry into an experience of its own , one informed by his psychologi- cal and ...
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