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Jeon, Deuk Ju. “Robinson Jeffers’ Ways for Detachment.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 40.1 (2014): 159-183. Robinson Jeffers’ inhumanism “to turn from man to not-man” means “to touch the diamond within to the diamond outside.” To reach the diamond within, detachment from self-involvement is necessary. Jeffers’ many poems show his ways for detachment. For Jeffers, a rock embodies detachment. Based on his interest in geology and his experience as a mason to build his own Tor House and Hawk Tower, he meditates the inner spirit of a rock. The other ways involve “thinning humanity a little” which means human consciousness and "knowing that our angry choices and hopes and terrors are in vain." He attempts to thin humanity through the verbal destruction of it and the realization of human limitations, and to detach from evils and tragedies by inventing bad dreams and distancing human actions spacially and temporally. Jeffers further proceeds to make the reader realize a real place in the cosmos and their relative triviality. The final way is his God-centered thought. He requires the reader to love God and grow to it, but not to expect to be loved by God. All these ways are part of his inhumanism which he claims offers “a detachment as rule of action.” (Hongik University)