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Robinson Jeffers grew up with a well-educated minister father, who also provided Jeffers with a noble education (The Biography). Most of his education took place while he was traveling with his father (The Biography). While traveling with his father, Jeffers learned many foreign languages that would eventually help him through his many years of schooling (The Biography). With all the money that Jeffers was able to acquire after his many years of schooling, he was finally able to spend his life writing poetry (The Biography). Robinson Jeffers has a keen and odd interest towards birds, especially hawks, which makes sense of all the comparisons he makes to birds in his poems (The Biography).

In the beginning of “Be Angry at the Sun”, Jeffers calls out men on publishing falsehoods (Be Angry at the Sun). Just in the very first line, the fact that Jeffers shows bitterness proves that he is showing signs of modernistic writing. A couple of lines down, Jeffers points out that the corruption of America has been in existence for years now (Be Angry at the Sun). Jeffers seems to want to see a change in the way that men (and maybe women) are going about using the country (Be Angry at the Sun). The bitterness goes to show that Jeffers sees that a change needs to be made. In the poem, Jeffers refers to a wheel and a turn (Be Angry at the Sun). The wheel and turn refers to the Americans being stuck on a continuum of bad habits (Be Angry at the Sun).

In the second and last part of the poem, Jeffers points out that no man should see himself as a great leader (Be Angry at the Sun). Jeffers makes the point of saying that let each man be his own self and strive for what he wants (Be Angry at the Sun). Modernism fits into this poem when Jeffers writes about striving. Jeffers believes that men should strive for their power, and in the modernism time, that was the goal, to strive (Be Angry at the Sun). Jeffers wants his readers to see that he is serious about the personal achievement because he sets apart the men, boys, and women to show that they should all work to get themselves to where they should be individually (Be Angry at the Sun). Jeffers wrote many different poems, some in great contrast to “Be Angry at the Sun”. Jeffers wrote the poem, “Flight of Swans”. “Flight of Swans” was written more about nature and more metaphorically (Flight of Swans). Jeffers still writes about reaching for something that is higher than one currently is (Flight of Swans). In both poems Robinson Jeffers thinks that it is necessary for people to reach for their own individual goals and placement in life (Flight of Swans).

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