The Problem of the Assimilation of the Oppositions in "The White Goddess", the Concept of Robert Graves
Journal Title: Вісник Житомирського державного університету імені Івана Франка - Year 2018, Vol 88, Issue 2
Abstract
Robert Graves, who in his literary and artistic work combined historical legitimacy, mythology and poetic intuition, sought to create a religious concept which is capable of responding to the moral and spiritual expectations of the modern man, and this expectation found its ideal embodiment in his conceptual idea of the Great Goddess. Like other sensitive followers of the Great Goddess, Robert Graves once saw the awakening of the universal spirit. Many poets, such as Robert Graves, William Butler Yates, Aleister Crowley, Ezra Pound, presented themselves as apostles of the Great God, although they could not pass through the abyss of the phenomenal world, drowned in the waters of their own reflections and spirituality, and became instruments of the Great Goddess. In the Graves' concept, the supposed Great Goddess represents the Divine Child as the fruit of a ''mysterious marriage'' in unity with the other half of this child as the unity of opposites, and the new God, symbolized by the Black Goddess (black and white, expresses intelligence),it will create a new state of consciousness. The Black Goddess must assimilate opposites in the human psyche, in other words, a harmonious substitution will take place. Although Robert Graves came up with an important concept related to the new religion, new consciousness, new world order, he is not optimistic about the development of humanity and the transition to a new religion.
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A. M. Gamidova
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