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"Inhumanism"

•    Jeffers's assertion that mankind was too egocentric, too unmoved by the "astonishing beauty of things".

•    "The Double Axe" - deflned "inhumanism" criticized the Allie's role in WW II - putting Roosevelt and Churchill on the same morał level as Hitler and Mussolini.

"Dlvlnely Superfluous Beauty"

•    Vision of the spontaneous energy running through all things.

•    Wish to be indentified with this energy, to become one with what Is "divinely superfluous", "The incredible beauty of joy. Stars with the flre the joining of lips."

"The Burial Place”

•    Union between himself and naturę complete......................................

•    "put me in a beautiful place far off from men......................................cemetery I should

be pleased to Ile in one grave with'em" (the quick deer, the lonely puma).

•    The human animal is absurd and petty, every thing appears smali In contrast to the enigmatic beauty, the intrinsic perfection of naturę. We have to return to earth, our origin.

Jeffers's impact

•    Depends upon PERSPECTIN/E.

•    Human life Is seen from an immense distance, as it were placed within the larger dimensions of earth, sea, and sky.

•    Colloquial speech, first confllct, then union between human naturę and naturę

•    Recognition of the needs and limits of the human character.

CARL SANDBURG (1878 - 1967)

Life:

•    Sandburg was a son of poor Swedish Immigrants. Hr had to quit school at 13 to begin working.

•    He roamed over Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado working as a truck handler, harvest hand, dishwasher, brick maker, porter, janitor, milkman, among other jobs.

•    He worked as a war correspondent during Spanish-American War.

•    He completed four years at Lombard College in Galesburg but did not graduate.

•    In 1908, he became a political organizer for the Social Democrats. He served as a secretary to the mayor of Milwaukee. He went back to newspaper work.

•    Poet, folksinger and journalist.

Poetry:

• He spoke for the common man and woman.

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