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 Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven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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... 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, Each spectral hound from memory's ...
... thought mad. Yet hewascompelled to publishthe poem once. Significantly, he saw theFay as the powerthattroubled hislife, thetrauma of love and war that would behismuse. As inthe quotation above from the foreword to The White Goddess ...
... 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 when she prophesies , each spirit swan , Each spectral hound from memory's ...
... of madness and beyond , Thee , moon , whom now I flout , by thought made bold , Naked , my Joseph's garment in thy hold . ( CP 3 : 330-331 ) Graves did not choose to reprint this poem , which 6 THE EARLY POETRY OF ROBERT GRAVES.
... thought mad . Yet he was compelled to publish the poem once . Signifi- cantly , he saw the Fay as the power that troubled his life , the trauma of love and war that would be his muse . As in the quotation above from the foreword to The ...
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