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Reading Notes Week 8 Part B

Robinson Jeffers
·     Born in Pennsylvania
·     Occidental college
·     Enrolled in the university of Southern California 1905
·     Jeffers is a voice of nature

Continent’s End
·     Ocean maternal characteristics
·     Sea is the source of life
·     The short lyrics tells the meaning of human life and its correlation to the sea. It focuses on the more ancient source of both human life and the ocean. Oceanic life-forms into the mindset and assurance of human kind.
·     The sea is destructive as well

To the Stone Cutters
·     A free verse
·     Contemplation of the future
·     The tone is dark and discouraging
·     Poets and stone cutter’s carve their legacy onto stones, so they are never forgotten
·     Anyone can be a stone-cutter
·     Oblivion
·     The poem shows the importance of being remembered and known

Carmel Point
·     Description of scenery
·     It speaks about the beauty of things before they are damage by our hands
·     Speaks about time and how we eventually dissolve – our being, the image we work so hard on obtaining and preserving
·     It tells us that we need to be more confident in who we are and not try to be perfect
·     Nature and humankind



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  1. AnthonyApril 7, 2019 at 11:35 PM

    Hey Samuel,

    I liked the stone cutter, did you get the feeling he was referring to immortality? We tend to say things that last forever are "written in stone". I did not get dark and discouraging, however, I did pick up on his feelings of thanklessness.

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