Greek Mythology
Any time a poet or an artist makes reference to Greek mythology, you know that they're pulling out the big guns. See, in Western literary and cultural traditions, "Greek" is sort of the same thing...
The Sun
Okay, so the poem doesn't actually mention the sun by name, but its imagery radiates in the stanzas on the naked. There are lots of reasons why Graves might turn on the sunlight in his descriptive...