Essay

This was an essay I had to write for school today. Surprisingly, (or not, for people who know me), it took quite a long time!

Robinson Jeffers’ poem, Shine, Perishing Republic presents a pessimistic view of America. In the first paragraph of Jeffers’ poem, he says that protest in America lasts only quickly, then fades out altogether, giving way to a fixed way of American living. He also says, in his poem, that corruption has never been compulsory, that one could always escape from corruption and evil.
I think that America has become both better and worse. Jeffers’ view is still true in some ways, but other aspects of his view of America have changed.
America has improved. Human rights have improved, and so has technology. America has improved hospitals and medicines, and America has many more jobs available than in 1925.
America can still be thought of as a hardening, towering empire. America is still separated into owned pieces, like countries and states. People have different religions, and they have many wars and arguments. America isn’t entirely peaceful. Wars and various disagreements bubble up like hot magma, destroying things ahead.
Today’s America has changed to the better, and to the worse. In some ways, it has stayed the same. A lot of Jeffers’ pessimistic poem still qualifies for America, but some things have changed for the better or for the worse.