Shine, Perishing Republic Analysis

Do you like your lines short and rhyming? Well, get your hankies ready; we have bad news. Jeffers just isn't feeling the whole jaunty meter and dance-around-in-circles thing. His speaker prefers hi...

It feels like the speaker of "Shine, Perishing Republic," is "sadly smiling" throughout the entire poem. He's not necessarily shouting at us, but he's definitely not pleased by what's become of Ame...

Sure, we're technically in America in "Shine, Perishing Republic," but the problems we see happening there are also the same problems we'd see anywhere else that an empire exists. Whether we're in...

One thing's for sure: "Shine, Perishing Republic" does not sound like Grandpa's favorite patriotic song. The stars and stripes have seen better days than this "thickening center" that's moldy and c...

We'd love to say that "Shine, Perishing Republic" was inspired by Pink Floyd, but that would be a lie. Jeffers wrote this diamond back in 1925, so although we can't say he was planting the seed for...

By "inhuman," we don't mean to say Robinson Jeffers was a mutant or anything (eek). But he did coin his philosophy "inhumanism," which describes an interest in the natural world over man's self-obs...

The speaker gives us plenty of detail as to where we are and what he's talking about in "Shine, Perishing Republic." So it's not as if we need to dig through layers of symbolism, but we do need to...

Did you know that a foundation was created in Jeffers's name to preserve the Tor House and Hawk Tower he built in Carmel? It doesn't get more naturally beautiful than this. (Source.)Jeffers studied...

"Shine, Perishing Republic" deals with apocalyptic circumstances so, you know, there's not much hanky panky going on here. Sure, the speaker mentions "vulgarity," but he doesn't get into specifics,...