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 Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven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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... psychology), he wouldhave understood the experiences ofDurrell andJung. Perhaps wehavereduced their experiences to metaphors, usingthe rhetoric of psychology, to correspond to our secular and literalage. But Graves was not of thisage.As ...
... psychological trauma , or in the words of Martin Seymour - Smith , she went " mad ” in 1939. No one likes to talk about them . Laura Riding ( so it would appear to an outsider ) came to England in 1926 and broke up a family consisting ...
... Graves , which is the view of Paul Fussell , who contends that Graves transformed the White Goddess from " psychological metaphor into a virtual anthropological ' fact " " ( 206 5 THE LUNATIC , THE LOVER , AND THE POET.
... psychology ) , he would have under- stood the experiences of Durrell and Jung . Perhaps we have reduced their experiences to metaphors , using the rhetoric of psychology , to correspond to our secular and literal age . But Graves was ...
... psychologist , a considerable enigma , and ' Georgian , ' a poet who fought in the Great War . " A neighbor whom Palmer had asked directions in turn asked Palmer about Graves because they couldn't figure him out and didn't know what he ...
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