Pearl Harbor (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robinson Jeffers
- First Published: 1948
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
The Poem
Robinson Jeffers’s poem “Pearl Harbor” expresses the poet’s perspective on America’s response to the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on the U.S. fleet in Oahu, Hawaii. Jeffers begins the first of the two sections of twenty-four and twenty-six lines, respectively, that make up this poem by belittling the attack, calling it no more than “fireworks.”
The attack, which signaled the entrance of Japan on the side of Germany and Italy in World War II and the entrance of the United States on the side of the Allies, is for Jeffers the result of men who...
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