goodbye to all that robert graves sparknotes

As played by Dianna Agron, Riding is aggressively coquettish.

Riding hops over to England and soon an initially platonic menage-a-trois comes into being. Nunez wants us to believe it’s a block that compels Graves to contact a New-York-based poet named Laura Riding, after reading her work. Graves in this period was in fact extremely productive, with several poetry collections and critical studies under his belt and he and Nancy had not one but four children. This house, in Islip, well outside London, is called “World’s End.”įor the sake of narrative coherence, perhaps, the movie hedges with respect to reality. Haunted by nightmares, jumpy at ringing telephones, the utterly humorless Graves here is seriously unproductive in the house he shares with his wife Nancy ( Laura Haddock) and their young daughter Catherine. And with good reason as we hear Tom Hughes as Graves recall in voice-over, he was wounded and left for dead in the Somme, one of the bloodiest battlefields of the war. In “The Laureate,” written and directed by William Nunez, Graves is still very much a post-war poet, that is a post-World War I poet, and still riven by PTSD. For the latter, check out this stanza from his poem “The Naked and the Nude”: The nude are bold, the nude are slyĪnyway. Sometimes rather gentle, sometimes chiding. For one thing, it misses Graves’ wit, which could be vicious or teasing.

Goodbye to all that robert graves sparknotes