The Purse-Seine (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robinson Jeffers
- First Published: 1937
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Human race, Fishing or fishermen, Fishes
The Poem
“The Purse-Seine” is typical of many of Robinson Jeffers’s short poems. As is characteristic of lyric poems, the poet shares his personal experiences, thoughts, and opinions directly with the reader, using beautifully rendered scenes of nature to illustrate his point. It is written in Jeffers’s unique verse form: a type of free verse with very long lines. The poem’s twenty-four lines are divided into four unequal stanzas. The first stanza presents a scene of commercial sardine fishermen working with a particular kind of net known as a purse seine. The reader...
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