Analyzing Robinson Jeffers 'A Thousand Graceful Subtleties'

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It was here in California that Jeffers felt at home, so much so that he left only to take small trips and then not for very long. He attended Occidental College where he continued to thrive on nature and the California atmosphere. California became another key ingredient to Jeffers poetry; he one day wrote in a poem that California was "the world's end." (Carpenter 24)
In 1905, Jeffers attended University of Southern California for his graduate studies in medicine. It was here that Jeffers had a problem that would plague his life for eight years. He fell in love with a married woman named Una Call Kuster, two years his senior. Both families tried to break them up but they were so in love that she divorced her husband and married Jeffers in 1913.
In 1912 Jeffers published his first book, Flagons and Apples, with a small inheritance he had from his grandfather's death. During in the year of 1913 Jeffers and Una began building 'Tor House' in Carmel. This home would become their permanent residence till both passed…show more content…
His parents were somewhat of an odd fit. His father, Dr. William Hamilton Jeffers, was an extremely intelligent yet “reserved, reclusive person” who married a happy upbeat woman who was 23 years younger than himself (Coffin). Despite their age and personality differences, Dr. Jeffers and Annie
Robinson Tuttle had a secure marriage. Dr. Jeffers’s widespread education resulted in a vast knowledge of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and the Old Testament. Dr. Jeffers was eager to pass on his knowledge to Robinson. So, when Robinson was only five years old,
Dr. Jeffers began to teach him Greek (Academy of American Poets). Also starting at a young age, Robinson traveled throughout Europe. From age eleven to fifteen, Robinson attended several different European boarding schools: in Zurich, Leipzig, Geneva, Vevey, and Lausanne (Coffin). Though Dr. Jeffers was responsible for Robinson’s frequent transfers, his reasoning is unknown. At each school, Jeffers was seen by his peers as reclusive and pensive—much like his father. In 1903, when Jeffers was 16, he