He realizes that his attitude was wrong and his inner thoughts have been polished. The contrast between warm and cold is
He realizes that his attitude was wrong and his inner thoughts have been polished. The contrast between warm and cold is
This one uses personification to give the reader the clue that the weather is freezing temperatures and cold. This leaves us with either a playful tone, since we can assume that it is winter and children are playing, or a tone of solitude since with colder weather comes less people out and about. Another example of a literary element is this quote; “... Housewives lumbering like great black bears in their furs along the icy…
Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” is a tribute to his father. In the poem, Hayden uses many literary devices to describe the vivid memories of his father during his childhood. The poem describes how his father was a hardworking man, and how he taken for granted the sacrificing duties his father endures to make sure the family is okay. The very first word in the first line, “Sundays” makes a reference to Christianity.…
Robert Hayden’s sorrowful “Those Winter Sundays” demonstrates how the utilization of allusions, consonance, symbolism, and alliteration establish a dramatic and emotional effect. Beginning with the word “Sundays,” Hayden references Christianity, generating images of a resurrected son, sacrificed by his own father. Building upon the same tensions found in this familiar story, the speaker shares bittersweet remembrances of Sunday mornings with his father. Like the Christian story of God’s son Jesus, suffering, sacrifice and exaltation are prominent themes. Through these allusions and careful attention to the effect of sound, Hayden paints a harsh picture of a father who makes many sacrifices for his son, but also brutalizes him.…
The three pieces of literature, The Poem, ‘’Daystar’’ by African American poet Rita Dove, ‘’Those Winter Sundays’ by African American poet Robert Hayden and the story’’ At Home’’, by Anton Chekhov are all significant to the extent that they convey similar ideas or themes. The three are thus closely related in some ways that come to life with an incisive analysis and consideration of the three. The idea of family relations is, therefore, an idea or theme that cuts across all the three pieces of literature though in slightly various ways as demonstrated by an analytical consideration of each of the three works. Each piece of work, from the two poems, ‘’Daystar’’ by Rita Dove, ‘’Those Winter Sundays’’ by Robert Hayden and the short story ‘’At…
“Poems About Fathers” “My Papa’s Waltz,” by Theodore Roethke, “Those Winter Sundays,” by Robert Hayden, and “My Father’s Hat,” by Mark Irwin were hard for me to understand at the beginning because of the difficult words they used through the poems. But after studying all the project resources and learning all the term, it was easy to understand them. I noticed at the end that they are very similar poems. The three of them describe different episodes of their childhood.…
Immediately as the poem begins, the speaker exposes the tone. As the narrator awakens on a February morning, it is evident that her feelings toward winter are far from cheerful. In the first two lines she states, “Winter. Time to eat fat / and watch hockey. ”…
“Those Winter Sundays” is technically a sonnet as it has 14 lines, however, it does not rhyme and is not in iambic pentameter. Nevertheless, sonnets are frequently identified as an expression of love and although “Those Winter Sundays” describes a love a father shows his children, it shares this commonality. In contrast, “We Real Cool” is broken in four stanzas, each containing a two line couplet. The rhyme is in the middle of the couplet not the end like many traditional poems giving readers a sense of continuity as the poem flows from line to line.…
Parenting is not an easy task to master, however, they play an important role in their children’s early years. Every child has parents, which are necessary for a good childhood. As a result, parents should be the best they can be. Being supportive, teaching values, and taking responsibility are the necessary qualities found in a good parent, which are shown throughout Walls’ memoir, Roethke’s poem, and Gibbs’ article. Every good parent should support their child’s goals.…
Throughout the father and the son’s journey, the constant snowing is used to represent those who have died from the destruction in the “dead landscape of ashes and gray snow.” (Madsen 1-2) The father and son experience death of a peer everyday, but they never properly mourn for those who have died, since they have to keep moving on their journey. The only person who was mourned was the father when he died and the boy “slept close to his father that night and held him” (McCarthy 281). The climate of the story produces a mood of despair and sadness which comes hand in hand with the depressing atmosphere.…
Frost is the type of writer to keep religion and politics away from his poetry, and that is why he is so in tuned with nature throughout most of his poems because he makes it his focal point. The scenery and lifestyle of New England may seem generic and simple, but Frost put a deeper and darker meaning to all his poems out of plain sight. Even though “Fire and Ice” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay” convey different meanings, each poem uses the imagery of Nature and similar structure to convey their themes. In “Fire and Ice”, Frost wants to pose an idea of the wonder of his exact interpretation of his poem.…
In “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden and “My Father’s Song” by Simon J. Ortiz, there is love found within by a man’s memories of his childhood relationship with his Father. “Those Winter Sundays” is about a man who is remembering the relationship he had with his father through regret, because he realizes how unappreciative he was. “My Father’s Song” is a man reminiscing on the actions his father makes when showing him the value of life and how to grow up. Within both of these poems the father-son relationship does not show verbal communication. In “Those Winter Sundays,” this lack of communication helps indicate the distance between the two, whereas the communication breakdown in “My Father’s Song” reflects the connection that the two…
The speaker’s father in “Those Winter Sundays” puts more effort into domestic labor so he can provide his family the basic tools they need for survival. As a result, his relationship with his son suffers. Something always slips through the…
Robert Frost’s “Desert Places” is a somber, introspective journey through a barren landscape choked by the smothering presence of snowfall. Although the poem begins with a lens trained on the surrounding landscape, the narrator’s thoughts eventually turn inward by the final stanza as the narrator compares the current frozen landscape to the vast desert of isolation and loneliness within himself. Frost utilizes repetition to both emphasize the rhythm of snow and night descending and to underscore the sensations felt by the narrator as he travels by his lonesome on the path before him. As the poem closes, the narrator comes to a realization which is—in a way—comforting but equally frightening: the pervading chill and darkness around cannot scare…
Frost’s use of imagery transports his reader into the poem, subjecting them to the scene’s ethereal vibe. This consequently provides the reader with the context needed to fully comprehend the following stanzas. On a darker note, Frost includes various symbols meant to stir the reader into seeing the poem with a different perspective. The reader quickly discovers that the speaker stands, “Between the woods and frozen lake / [on] the darkest evening of the year” (8). Darkness in literature indicates sinister forces and oftentimes death.…