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On the Theme of Time
Walton, Eda Lou | February 3, 1932 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Decent to the Dead" by the author Robinson Jeffers. This new collection of elegies, written in rhythms closely approximating the quantitative Greek, written in statements sometimes closely approximating the simplicity and directness of prose, but escaping the prosaic because so condensed, so vehement, is the logical conclusion of Jeffers's theme of desire for annihilation: he believes it necessary to escape the bonds of humanity, and then to be reunited with a larger measure of time, nature.

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DECENT to the Dead (Book); BOOKS; JEFFERS, Robinson; ELEGIAC poetry; POETRY; LYRIC poetry
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