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 Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven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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... writing would have lacked direction and force. In thisstudy I examine the growthof Graves'sspiritual and poetic awareness from his firstvolume, OvertheBrazier, to Poems (1914–1926). During this discrete time, hiscourse as poet andlover ...
... writing might never have gone beyond memoirs and a fictionalized life . His own everyday life ( exciting as it was ) only entered his writing in the most oblique ways . That life has so fascinated his critics that they have worried at ...
... writers different from one another is not their experiences , but their reactions to those experiences . For Graves ... writing , especially the poetry , records and celebrates his accommodating such powers . In so doing , he rejected ...
... writing would have lacked direction and force . In this study I examine the growth of Graves's spiritual and poetic awareness from his first volume , Over the Brazier , to Poems ( 1914- 1926 ) . During this discrete time , his course as ...
... writing . ( Conversations 73-76 ) As we talked , he told me of what he had ten years before termed “ un- publishable " : " I was a virgin until I was married and was never with an- other woman until my wife forced me to . I left with ...
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