Living Alone (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Hayden Carruth
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Love or romance, Music or musicians, Jazz music, Loneliness, Separation
The Poem
“Living Alone” is a fairly long poem (165 lines); it might appear at first to be in free verse, but actually it employs several types of rhyme, rhythm, and formal lineation. Excluding the epigraph and dedication, the poem is divided into seventeen sections, several of which are further divided into stanzas. The poem is dedicated to John Cheever, an American prose writer, and begins with an epigraph taken from one of Cheever’s works. In this epigraph an observer on a ship sees a Ping-Pong table washed off the ship’s deck because the helmsman made a...
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