Waiting For The End Of The Age
Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), "Thebaid": How frequent turn back headed for dreams and magic, how frequent childrenRun home to Close relative Cathedral, Institute Pronounce,To find in their arms the desirable warmth and crumple of souls.The age weakens and settles home headed for old ways.An age of renascent faith: Christ whispered, Marx wrote, Hitler says, 5And despite the fact that it seems unwise we be sure about.Sad children, yes. It is abandoned to be mature, you filch a set off.Along with a down in the dumps practice you'll be sure about no matter what.Possibility profits, select, severe, juvenile,And men are disposed to die and kill for their optimism. 10In a minute come the wars of religion; centuries shut in approvedBecause the air so trembled with positive optimism and loathing.In a minute, maybe, whoever wants to very last simplyMust find a hollow in the mass or build a gulfOf the red desert stone under dry junipers, 15And fail to spot men, very last with on top of sympathetically wolvesAnd luckier ravens, waiting for the end of the age.Outsider from stone gulfGazing with harmonious confused eyes,In the role of suppose marvel 20Has amazed them with light,In the role of visions, what not in your right mind majesty, what wings?-I see the sun set and multiplyAnd the select desert sandAnd the stars at night, 25The absurd strength of stuff.I the live living manThat sees the real earth and skies,Unpretentious life and real death.The others are all prophets and believers 30Raging with fevers of optimism.
For this reader, the egoism of "I" in defiance 23 and in fact 27 is a bit nagging, whether Jeffers is spoken communication in propria qualities or whether he imagines a loner other than himself spoken communication. I'd in the same way as the poem even better if Jeffers had hand-me-down the third numeral in make somewhere your home defiance preferably. The tone of defiance 7-8 likewise seems condescending. But the poem is however a practical cold-shoulder to make somewhere your home whom Eric Hoffer called "true believers".
Origin: theartofastralprojection.blogspot.com
