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 Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven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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... rejected the essential components of the Western idea of reality : reason and predictability , the heritage of Aristotle and the glory that was Greece . Unpredictability , es- pecially , he made a characteristic of the White Goddess ...
... rejected his own early interest in depth psychology), he wouldhave understood the experiences ofDurrell andJung. Perhaps wehavereduced their experiences to metaphors, usingthe rhetoric of psychology, to correspond to our secular and ...
... rejected it politely , saying that he would not venture to persuade his colleagues of its merit , though convinced himself . He died three weeks later . Another ( American ) rejected it impolitely and almost at once was found hanging ...
... Rejecting his father , Graves declared Marsh to be the only person he could trust and gave him " an absolute free hand " to change or arrange anything he had written ( BCNYPL ) . Not even Brooke had given Marsh such authority , and ...
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