Term Papers on Hayden Carruth

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Hayden Carruth

     Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey is Hayden Carruth's most recent collection of
works. Published in 1996, it reflects a dark, boozed washed view of the world
throw the eyes of a 76- year-old man. His works reflect his personal experiences
and his opinion on world events. Despite technical merit Carruth works have
become depressing.
     Hayden Carruth is a child of the depression born in Vermont in 1921
where he lived for many tears. He now lives in upstate New York, where he taught
in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University, until his
recent retierment. He has published twenty-nine books, mostly of poetry but also
a novel, four books of criticism, and anthologies as well. Four of his most
recent books are Selected Essays & Reviews, Collected Longer Poems, Collected
Shorter Poems, 1946-1991, and Suicides and Jazzers. He edited poetry for, Poetry,
Harper's, and for 20 years The Hudson Review. He has received fellowships from
the Bollingen Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment
for the Arts, most recently in 1995, a Lannan Literary Fellowship. He has won
many awords including the Lenore Marshall Award, the Paterson Poetry Prize, the
Vermont Governor's Medal, the Carl Sandburg Award, the Whiting Award, the Ruth
Lily Prize, the National Book Award and The National Book Critics' Circle Award
for Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991.
     In "Another" Carruth comments on the goal of poetry. He begins by
dismissing truth and beauty;

          "Truth and beauty
          were never the
           aims of proper poetry
          and the era
          which proclaimed them
          was a brutal
          era."
               -Another

     The era mite have been brutal but "truth and beauty" where and still are
a large part of  "proper poetry". The collected works of William Shakespeare and
Robert Frost both have great deal of truth and beauty in their works as well as
the tragic ordeals in life while Carruth only sees the brutality of life.
Carruth goes on to name the goal of poetry as:

          "...let
          justice be primary
          when we sing,..."
               -Another

     Even though he's primary goal is justice this collection of poems seems
to be one long complaint about injustice. It is easy to agree with Carruth in
the "Quality of wine" when he says "this wine is really awful, " unlike the poet,
it is his unremitting winning that is awful. Like self commentary Carruth
writes:

           "Language is defeated
          in the heavy, heavy day.

          Limp lines on the page
          like grass mown in the meadow."
               -The Heaviness

     This utter heaviness can be seen in the horrific poem "The Camp, " all
21 verses of it lament man's hardness of heart. In the second verse, a lighter
through reads,

          "As the kittens were born
          the father of the little girl
          ba...

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