[New-Poetry] Poems by Others: Robinson Jeffers

[Suzanne Burns]

On 1/5/07, JforJames at aol.com <JforJames at aol.com> wrote:
>
> > The rock is inanimate. And any living organism, as Darwin has it, would
> > by nature choke off the existence of any other living organism in order
> > the preserve its own survival.



Absolutely.  To take the environmentalist's position though, and I think I
can do this without romanticising nature,  we have done a considerably more
through job of this than any other species on the planet, and not just for
our survival-- SUVs are not necessary for survival.

The nature world is not at all about harmonious relationships and peaceable
kingdoms.  I can respect this, and like Chris I find plenty of beauty in
it..  If a polar bear needed to eat me, I wouldn't be happy certainly, but I
wouldn't hold it against the polar bear.  I have a bone to pick though about
all that garbage in the Pacific-- that never needed to happen.

Back to Jeffers, well yes.  He certainly had what I would consider a life of
luxury-- a house by the sea in southern california. Yum.  I'll take that
kind of austerity any day.  I suspect that he was aware of this on some
level.

Suzanne
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