The Early Poetry of Robert Graves: The Goddess BeckonsUniversity of Texas Press, 15.07.2002 - 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 Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven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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... night near La Bassée of idyllic lives in Canada or the South Seas . He knew these were empty dreams , as empty as his own dream of a cottage in North Wales with books and a garden where he would " dream and write " ( 31 ) . Even so ...
... nights and days in Craiglockhart : the night sounds of insomniac officers padding in slippers through the passages which smelled of stale tobacco smoke and of men crying out in their sleep , tormented by dreams of the front line which ...
... night , so much like the nights at Craiglockhart as described by Sassoon . The incubus who narrates the poem seems sympathetic with the being he torments , yet is compelled to make his visit . The night and its inhabitants in the ...
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CHAPTER 2 | 28 |
AFTER THE WAR | 50 |
CHAPTER 4 | 79 |
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