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    A Study Guide for Hayden Carruth's "I, I, I"
    A Study Guide for Hayden Carruth's "I, I, I"
    A Study Guide for Hayden Carruth's "I, I, I"
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    A Study Guide for Hayden Carruth's "I, I, I"

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    A Study Guide for Hayden Carruth's "I, I, I," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535825405
    A Study Guide for Hayden Carruth's "I, I, I"

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      A Study Guide for Hayden Carruth's "I, I, I" - Gale

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      I, I, I

      Hayden Carruth

      1996

      Introduction

      In 1996, American poet Hayden Carruth published his poem I, I, I in his collection, Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey: Poems 1991-1995. At that time, Carruth was already an established and popular poet who had published many collections of poetry since 1959. While he is viewed as a proponent of twentieth-century modernism, he defies categorization and, indeed, has consciously resisted it. In his poetry, Carruth moves easily between free verse and verse written in rhyme and meter.

      Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey: Poems 1991-1996 was generally well received by critics and won a National Book Award in poetry for the poet in the year 1996. I, I, I is written in non-rhyming free verse. Thematically, the poem is a poetic version of the bildungsroman (a novel dealing with the development or coming-of-age of a young protagonist). It raises and, to some extent answers, questions about self-identity through a memorable boyhood experience of the speaker. The poet's treatment of the experience is highly personal but shows the influence of existentialism and Eastern mysticism. The poem appears to be autobiographical, in that it is written in the first person and the speaker's physical appearance matches that of Carruth himself.

      Author Biography

      Hayden Carruth was born on August 3, 1921, in Waterbury, Connecticut, to Gorton Veeder Carruth, a newspaper editor, and Margery Barrow Carruth. He received a B.A. in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1943 and an M.A. in English from the University of Chicago in 1947. During World War II, Carruth served for two years in the United States Army Air Corps. From 1949 to 1950, he was

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