By D. N. G. Carter
An try and supply a thematic remedy of Graves' poems. The learn perspectives Graves as having suffered by the hands of destiny that is built-in into his poetry and the writer goals to supply a brand new studying of the poems, frequently opposite to accredited wisdom.
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Our reward lay in their practice, with possible survival as a small bright light seen at the end of a long tunnel. We despised all civilians. . " The virtues that sustained the soldier at the Front become those that will sustain the poet amid a collapsing civilisation. So 'The Cuirassiers of the Frontier' is not only Graves's finest tribute to the Royal Welch Fusiliers: it is also an address to 'those likeminded' - 'I allow the title of poet to all who think poetically, whether writers or not' - whose company is the poet's only possible community, and whose code of behaviour forms his only possible tradition.
Graves's first serious attempt to define his poetic position in a society from which he was becoming increasingly estranged was the poem 'Rocky Acres', a poem which first appeared in Country Sentiment, Graves's third volume of verse, published in 1920. With the 'acres' themselves Graves had close ties : they were the 'desolate rocky hill-country' behind Harlech, the country of his childhood holidays, the subject of his war-time anodyne fantasies, the actual place he went to while on leave to 'restore my sanity': above Harlech I found a personal peace independent of history or geography.
Unsurprisingly, then, 'Rocky Acres' celebrates not only a countryside, but a cast of mind, one determined to give a personal gloss to the text 'I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my salvation' . After four years of a war in which he was badly wounded Graves was severely shell-shocked, and was also beginning to encounter the difficulties of peace in the form of marital disillusionment, financial hardship, public indifference to his work and, in relation to the world at large, despair at an Armistice that seemed but to ensure another war.
