the meaning behind the tor house by jeffers

To feel and speak the astonishing beauty of things – earth,īeast, man and woman, sun, moon and stars – Here’s Robinson Jeffers, in “The Beauty of Things” : He would write in the morning and build in the afternoon.

While he worked he also constructed an overall “inhuman” philosophy, and honed his skill as a poet.

The manual labor, he said, cleared his mind, and “my fingers had the art to make stone love stone.” Jeffers apprenticed himself to a local stone mason to learn that art, which he practiced the rest of his life. He hauled the huge stones up from the beach below with horse teams. Jeffers soon built their medieval-looking granite home, Tor House, and its stunning Hawk Tower, on what was then a barren, rocky knoll above Carmel Bay. Pricey, exclusive, even snowy Carmel was far in the future when Robinson Jeffers and his wife Una arrived in 1914. On the day Jeffers died here, January 20, 1962, it snowed - a rare event along any stretch of California’s coast. Lawrence, Edgar Lee Masters and George Sterling, who all appreciated his natural dramatic sense. Vincent Millay, Charlie Chaplin, George Gershwin and other celebrities would visit him at the family home. Jeffers was reclusive, generally aloof from other coastal bohemians, though Langston Hughes, Edna St. By Carl Van Vechten, via Wikimedia Commons

The meaning behind the tor house by jeffers