Robinson Jeffers, "Sign-Post"

A fantastic poem, and one of his most famous, I believe. My interest in this reading of it falls on the "poor doll humanity," an image voiced once near the start, and once near the end of the poem. It makes the poem. The doll is--an abstraction. Sort of the point of discussing "humanity" against the human, no? Isn't Jeffers always aiming to become the thing? I.e., the brute, concrete, individual object (be it rock or hawk or human) rather than the ideal? This is a case of particulars versus universals, and as in Ransom's essay on Ontologies, the particulars win out.

The irony of the image, of course, is that the doll--idealized and unappealing abstraction though it may be--is itself an inhuman object, uncanny in a way that natural objects cannot. Is it with this in mind that the return to humanity (once no longer "born of a woman") can work?