Rock and Hawk (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robinson Jeffers
- First Published: 1935
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Nature, Human race, Survivalism, Mysticism, Tragedy, Birds, Life and death, Realism, Rocks
The Poem
“Rock and Hawk,” one of Robinson Jeffers’s most often reprinted short poems, has been regularly identified as one of his signature pieces—that is, it presents, in simple, direct form, one of his main themes. That theme has been called “Inhumanism.” It is based in the concept that humans, far from being the central point of reference in the cosmos, are a minor component of the process, significant only because they are capable of producing damage out of proportion to their importance. The idea is Darwinian, growing out of Jeffers’s post-college researches...
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