The poetry of Robert Graves from the war to "The white goddess"

• Autores: Lucia Graves
• Localización: Miscelánea: A journal of english and american studies, ISSN 1137-6368, ISSN-e 2386-4834, Nº 12, 1991, págs. 107-130
• Idioma: español
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  • The White Goddess was the central figure around which Graves's poetic forces rallied in mid-life, when he was at the peak of his intellectual and creative evolution, and filled the void left by his dissatisfaction with the society in which he lived. Graves used this figure to make sense not only of his own past, involving shell shock during the First World War and the intensity of his emotional relationships with women, but of human behaviour as a whole. In the figure of the White Goddess Graves found an explanation for his life-long fascination for the irrational elements of life, for the mysterious, the grotesque and even the cruel; an explanation, also, for his stubborn alienation from established attitudes to life and poetry, and from the patriarchal society in which he was educated. Poems like "The Survivor Comes Home," "The Pier Glass," "Full Moon" and "Midwinter Waking," among others, can be read as steps on the way to this spiritual interpretation of human life.