I took notes on this poem in class. Here are some of them:
- Like many of Jeffers’ poems, Aplogy for Bad Dreams is filled with sorrow, woe, and tragedy.
- Says that the Big Sur coast “calls out for tragedy like all beautiful places”
- Has to do with the sublime. This beautiful landscape is almost like a religious experience because of the beauty. It’s sublime, therefore tragic.
- Because of his beliefs, this rock formation and coastline is a miracle. This experience of connection to nature in which you are diminished as a human will clear your mind and allow you to EXPAND YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS.
- This is a selfless state of being in which your ego is not in control.
- If we cannot reach this state, we will live lives of tragedy.
Tragedy, in this sense, is the effect that we can never equal the beauty of the rocks, the beauty of nature in itself.
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