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Jeffers' Life
Scandal!
Birds and Fishes
Hurt Hawks
Random!
100
This is the date that Jeffers was born
What is January 10, 1887?
100
This is the FULL name of the woman with whom Jeffers had a scandalous affair with
What is Una Call Kuster?
100
This is another name for sea birds
What are sea-fowls?
100
This is the definition of a cur.
What is an aggressive dog?
100
These are the common themes of Jeffers' works.
What are nature, society's issues, and humanity?
200
This is the year of death of Robinson Jeffers
What is 1962?
200
This is the year that Jeffers met his lover and the year they fell in love.
What is 1906?
200
This is the intention or desire to do evil; ill will
What is malice
200
This is the structure of Hurt Hawks.
What are 27 unrhymed lines of varying length?
200
This is how Una died.
What is cancer?
300
This town in California was the inspiration for many of Jeffers' poems.
What is Carmel?
300
This is the place that they moved to after their affair was made public.
What is Carmel, California?
300
This is the number of lines in this poem.
What are 21 lines?
300
This is what Jeffers does not think humans deserve.
What is the mercy of God?
300
This is where Jeffers was born.
What is Pennsylvania?
400
These are the two languages that his father taught him as a child.
What are Latin and Greek?
400
This was the reason that Jeffers could not publicly profess his love for her
What was Una's marriage?
400
This is the form of the poem.
What is free verse?
400
These are the major themes presented in the poem
What are nature, destruction, and suffering?
400
These are the names of the houses that Jeffers built in Carmel.
What are Tor House and Hawk Tower?
500
These are the two colleges that Jeffers attended.
What are Occidental College and USC?
500
This is the number and gender of all their kids together.
What are twin boys and one girl?
500
This is the type of rhyme present in the poem.
What is free verse?
500
This is what Jeffers sees to be the main flaw in humans.
What is arrogance?
500
This is what caused Jeffers' popularity to decline.
What was his opposition to US involvement in World War II?