Who is Robinson Jeffers
John Robinson Jeffers (January 10, 1887 – January 20, 1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Much of Jeffers' poetry was written in narrative and epic form. However, he is also known for his shorter verse and is considered an icon of the environmental movement. Influential and highly regarded in some circles, despite or because of his philosophy of "inhumanism", Jeffers believed that transcending conflict required human concerns to be de-emphasized in favor of the boundless whole. This led him to oppose U.S. participation in World War II, a stance that was controversial after the U.S. entered the war.[citation needed]Life Jeffers was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), the son of Reverend ...
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Robinson Jeffers Poems
- Subjected Earth
Walking in the flat Oxfordshire fields
Where the eye can find no rock to rest on but little flints
Speckle the soil, and the million-berried hedges
Tingle with birds at evening, I saw the sombre ... - Fawn's Foster-mother
The old woman sits on a bench before the door and quarrels
With her meagre pale demoralized daughter.
Once when I passed I found her alone, laughing in the sun
And saying that when she was first married ... - Roan Stallion
The dog barked; then the woman stood in the doorway, and hearing
iron strike stone down the steep road
Covered her head with a black shawl and entered the light rain;
she stood at the turn of the road. ... - Natural Music
The old voice of the ocean, the bird-chatter of little rivers,
(Winter has given them gold for silver
To stain their water and bladed green for brown to line their banks)
From different throats intone one language. ... - Love The Wild Swan
"I hate my verses, every line, every word.
Oh pale and brittle pencils ever to try
One grass-blade's curve, or the throat of one bird
That clings to twig, ruffled against white sky. ...
Top 10 most used topics by Robinson Jeffers
Life 57 Great 53 Time 51 World 50 Long 47 Sea 47 Beautiful 44 Mountain 42 Ocean 40 Water 39Robinson Jeffers Quotes
- Civilization is a transient sickness.
- Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market or the precipice.
- The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.
Comments about Robinson Jeffers
- Ebneramos: poetry was most popular written art form as late as early 1900s. the modernism of pound was attempted to be replicated by idiot beatniks and english literature chairs at shit universities. they ruined it. love robinson jeffers!
- Go_gosox: time to read some robinson jeffers. bottom of the 9th should be fun.
- Masada2118: diagram robinson jeffers look, there are two curves in the air: the air that man's fate breathes: there is the rise and fall or the christian culture-complex, that broke its dawn- cloud fifteen centuries ago and now past noon drifts to decline; and there's the yet vaster curve
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