Concerning Necessity (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Hayden Carruth
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Work: Narrative
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: Nature, Rural or country life, Human race, Forests or forestry, Work or workers, Life, philosophy of, Labor, Lumber or lumbering
The Poem
“Concerning Necessity” is a narrative poem of forty-two lines, which are divided into seven six-line stanzas. Each stanza has inexact, or slant, rhymes in an ababcc scheme. The poem is written in the first person. Although authors often create a persona that is distinct from themselves, the persona of this poem is commonly seen in Hayden Carruth’s poetry: The speaker is a man (a husband and father) who is living in a difficult environment filled with physical labor. To anyone who is aware that Carruth spent more than twenty years of his life as a laborer...
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