Robinson Jeffers

Have you ever wanted to trade places with another person? In the poem, “Richard Corey” by Edwin A Robinson, the townspeople wanted to trade places with a gentleman named Richard Corey. People were jealous of him and wished they could be in his place, but one day, to everyone's surprise, Richard Corey committed suicide. The theme in Richard Corey, is that appearances can be deceiving. The beginning introduces Richard Corey from the first person point of view of the townspeople. Using this point…

dwells into the depths of human actions and psychology. It provides the reader with an insight into the lustful and often abusive nature of men as well as the hardships faced by women during those times. Ultimately, both the adaptation of Medea by Robinson Jeffers and the translation by Diane Svarlien revolve around a central theme: Jason abandons Medea for another woman. After being abandoned, Medea seeks what she believes to be a necessary comeuppance. Although the theme of each play remains…

must be creation - a change from beauty to beauty.” - John Muir. This quote from John Muir’s My First Summer in the Sierra, interprets that nature is both beautiful through destruction and creation. Authors such as Al Martinez, Anais Nin, and Robinson Jeffers illustrate the disasters of fires to reflect the beauty of recreation from its destruction. As as result, a common understanding is established of accepting nature in it’s positives and negatives. Each author incorporates figurative…

freedom and free will. The idea that we can do whatever we want, whenever we want. But how much of our lively hood is really in our control? In the poem “Fire on the Hills” written by Robinson Jeffers, he describes a forest raging with fire, burning everything in its path. Using metaphor, paradox, and vivid imagery Jeffers convey’s that nothing controls its own fate, and every things fate is connected. On the other hand, in the novel “Outliers” written by Malcolm Gladwell, he presents a case…

My Three Favorite Poems I picked three of my favorite works from several poems and songs to evaluate on why I really like them. Each one of them are very talented individuals who make great works of art. One of my favorite songs is “Copperhead Road” by Steve Earle. I really like how Steve Earle used an Archetype when he frequently used the words Copperhead Road. He also used imagery when the narrator said, “You could smell the whiskey burnin' down Copperhead Road” for the people who knows what…

living in a crowded area. As fire brings destruction and havoc, it will also bring new life, opportunity, and peacefulness as well. “Fire in the City, Fire in the Canyon” by Al Martinez, “Forest Fire” by Anais Nin, and “Fire on the Hills” by Robinson Jeffers portray the beauty and peacefulness fire brings. Each of these pieces convey a suspenseful and uneasy tone towards the reader. Al Martinez’s “Fire in the City, Fire in the Canyon” addresses the…

perspective on discovery explored in your prescribed text and ONE other related text of your own choosing? 
 Through the sophisticated and complex notion of emotional and spiritual discovery within Ang Lee’s riveting film Life of Pi (2012) and Robinson Jeffers poem The Deer Lay Down Their Bones (1954) which involves both explicitly and implicitly unearthing the confronting nature of discovery and exposing what is concealed through reexamination of what is widely known. The audiences and the…

I am writing my essay over the poems “Mountain Boomer” by Howard Starks, “Chahta Ahaya Moma” by Ron Wallace, and “Hurt Hawks” by Robinson Jeffers. The reason why I chose these three poems is because they all seem to have a distinct form of sadness. They are about being cornered, destroyed, and/or killed. I like these poems because of how sad and true they are. They represent the things we humans have a tendency to do at times, whether to humans or animals. Howard Starks once wrote a poem called…

Impending Doom: Embrace or Escape? Both Thanksgiving by Jon Loomis and Shine, Perishing Republic by Robinson Jeffers forecast impending doom. In Thanksgiving the imminent doom for the Wampanoag Native American group is the invasion of their land by the Puritan English settlers. While in Shine, Perishing Republic, America is destined to collapse on its corrupt and overly empire-like foundation. Both of these poems engage with the topic of impending doom, through detailing the subject’s level of…

From 1919 to 1941 was the time span after World War I had ended and the second World War was just beginning. This interwar period disrupted the United State’s foreign policy. The term “isolationist” is often used to describe the policy used during this era. An isolationist is defined as a national policy of abstaining from political and economic relations with other countries. America tried their best to stick to this approach as the world started on the long path to the deadliest war in…