Shine Perishing Republic. Perhaps Jeffers’ most anthologised poem, with its Whitmanesque tone and rhetoric, is reflected in a sonata-like first movement form. Influenced by the paintings of Jackson Pollock, the composer wanted to saturate the musical canvas with explosive, emotive events. Evening Ebb is a nature scene. Musical metaphors – symmetrical chords, inversion structures and canons – are used to to suggest the qualities of sea and reflected sky described so beautifully in the poem. Parad...