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This essay deals with the relationship between the White Goddess and Graves’s poetry. I touch on the nature of poetic testament in The White Goddess, which is Graves’s most important work of prose, and show how the concept of the White Goddess or the Muse is embodied and represented in what is called White Goddess poems: “To Juan at the Winter Solstice,” “Mid-Winter Waking,” “The Cool Web,” “The Siren’s Welcome to Cronos,” “In Her Praise,” “The Return of the Goddess,” These poems that deal with the White Goddess and her consort, their roles and rituals, endeavor to make some larger, more inclusive statement about man, his place in the world and society, and the particular character of his cultural history. They have the same theme, which as he says in The White Goddess, “is the antique story. . . of the birth, life, death, and resurrection of the God of the Waxing Year.” (Jeju National University)