Yes, Wendy - I love "The Roan Stallion", and other longer poems, like "The Love and the Hate" and "The Inhumanist".
And yes, it is often hard for us males to be corriged out of our male brains.
I am not sure you will find much of a "femme" sense to Jeffers' work - depending on what you mean by that.
There really isn't any need to be dualistic about it, but I think Jeffers is.
I think he would see himself as a monist:
I believe that the Universe is one being, all its parts are different
expressions of the same energy, and they are all in communication with each
other, therefore parts of one organic whole.This whole is in all its parts
so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am
compelled to love it and to think of it as divine. It seems to me that this
whole alone is worthy of the deeper sort of love and there is peace,
freedom, I might say a kind of salvation, in turning one's affections
outward toward this one God, rather than inwards on one's self, or on
humanity, or on human imaginations and abstractions--the world of spirits.
As the site I linked says:
"In Jeffers'pantheism, God is impersonal and transtheological--an undefinable power which is the source, purpose and supporting ground of all life and being. The creation itself is God, and our search for understanding this God is a search which begins by understanding our own insignificant position within the universe."
I suppose I don't really think in terms of metaphysical ideas being "true or false" - I treat them more like poems than doctrine.
I can "believe" in just about any position - for a while, at least. They come and go for me, and I don't really "believe" (in the sense of absolute commitment) in any single view. It's ALL poetry to me.
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