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Robert Bly (b. 1926) is highly credited for his achievement in The Light Around the Body (1967). In this volume Bly poses himself as one of the prominent contemporary American writers whose views about literary conventions and life should be taken seriously. The Light Around the Body, as central to Bly’s poetic vision, covers a wide range of topics ranging from speculative thought through to the most mundane and common in American life. It relies for its overall effect on its non-narrative modes of expression. This attitude is, understandably, consonant with his subjective mode as perfectly incarnated in his surrealistic practices throughout his long poetic career. His perception of the essence and objective of surrealistic images and processes, however, departs remarkably from what critics, either deliberately or in deliberately, take as rooted in the American "Deep Image” tradition. Bly himself has repeatedly expressed his rejection of the unreal affinity established between his surrealistic efforts and those of the Deep Image convention. His surrealism converges, rather, on its authentic sources experienced in South American and European surrealist masters and practitioners and Oriental mystics who has informed him and his poetry its great potentialities. It reveals, likewise, his taste for Freud’s and Jung's theories of the unconscious and the Archetypes of the mind. The objective of the current study, accordingly, is mainly to trace Bly’s surrealism to such original sources. It highlights, moreover, Bly’s handling of surrealism to make connections between his worldly concerns and his mystical aspirations as distinctly modeled and masterly practiced in The Light Around the Body (1967; and reprinted 1991).
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