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To: Ilaine who wrote (7411)	8/22/2001 12:41:37 PM
From: Oblomov	Respond to of 74559

My regrets for just now responding... Jeffers was certainly of the old school. He was a poet in the transcendentalist tradition: his ideals were rugged individualism and self-reliance. And yet he had none of the patriotism that attended the dithyrambs of a Whitman or an Emerson... he saw the state as an instrument of crude power, no more refined than it was in the days of Caesar (as one could tell from his poem titled, "Shine, Perishing Republic": "While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening/to empire..."). His anti-statism was similar to Nietzsche's, and certainly he was familiar with Nietzsche. For example, he addresses the issue of the transvaluation of values with beautiful economy in "The Bloody Sire". And, like Nietzsche, he was misunderstood and deliberately misinterpreted even by the literati, who ridiculed him for his appearing to protest against WW II. An updated "Poet of California" would no doubt sing of the glory of humankind, the sprawling city, all ruts in the road cushioned by the pneumatic shocks on his Lexus SUV... But, Jeffers would not have enjoyed city life. He and his writing would have suffered, just as Thoreau's would have.