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Original poem reprinted online here: "Vulture" by Robinson Jeffers More information about the Poet: Robinson Jeffers "From nothing comes epiphany"  And I think this explains the poems core -- that the majority is in the guise of nature, but it is the speaker trying to place himself in nature but not fitting in quite as well. Jeffers is known for his long lines, so I'm not too sure how to quote them.  But the poem starts out with setting first, "I had walked since dawn and lay down to rest on a bare hillside / Above the ocean."  Simple enough, right?  The speaker is traveling and ends up looking up.  And as the speaker is about to sleep or awaken, "I saw through half-shut eyelids" a vulture appears above him like a skylark , but rather than fly upward like the skylark, the vulture, "lower and nearer, it's orbit / narrowing.' Then comes the epiphany, "I understood then".  Such a short line in a Jeffers' poem over-impl...