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 Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven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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... poetry is the unfamiliar, the other. In the forties, he gave the spirit a name, “the White Goddess,” though in a poem published in 1924, “A History,” he called this spirit “the deathwhite Fay.” Graves saw thefeminine as the fundamental ...
... POET. TheSibyl Her hand falls helpless: thought amazements fly Far overhead, they leave no record mark— Wild swans urged ... poetry, and very recent works,such as Mammon and the Black GoddessandThe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, both of which ...
... poetry and critical studies that had brought him fame if not money . Then , in the midst of personal scan- dal , he ... poetry into an experience of its own , one informed by his psychologi- cal and spiritual discoveries . These began ...
... poetry . Woman as muse was representative of an awesome and almost indescribable power . The spirit that informs his early poetry is the unfamiliar , the other . In the forties , he gave the spirit a name , " the White Goddess ...
... poets . The story I tell is of a young man driven so mad by the moon that he made her into the heavenly body by which he steered his life . Yet only his poetry tells the tale . All parts of Graves's life were touched by this story that ...
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