Robert Graves The White Goddess Analysis

Conclusions

Modern writers of the twentieth century do not "create" myth in its strictly historical sense. They, in their own way, selected the primary myths, adapt them to their individual viewpoints and thus transform their own mythological structures (a system of characters, plots) and expressive features (composition, symbolism, attributes). Exactly such adaptation and transformation scientist call as the "secondary" ("author’s") myths. Robert Graves, a famous English poet, novelist, translator, essayist, researcher and theorist in poetry and mythology, belongs to such group of the scientific and artistic interpreters, constructors and transformers of myth.
The creative heritage of Robert Graves is still being gathered and published by his family and it is only beginning to be truly appreciated and comprehended by the literary historians, both foreign and of our own country. The reason for such a delay is of two kinds. In England (and later in the USA) the writer’s creative work was not studied properly because it was not evaluated. In literary studies in Eastern Europe (including Ukraine and Russia) it was quite different: his work was not estimated because, due to the historical and social reasons, it was insufficiently studied. However, today the concept of Robert Graves’s mythopoetics, which formed the basis of his

So he quite accurately reproduces a "dictionary" and "grammar" of myth in general and on the whole - the myth as a type of perception of the world. However, he also transforms the already used myths: in the scientific and critical works – myths are involved as illustrative material (some of the elements and motifs of myth reinforces and strengthens), in verse and in the "little poems" - myths become the lyrical impulse and content outline of his