My father died last two Tuesdays ago. As odd as it sounds from someone who keeps a poetry blog‚ I don’t immediately look to poetry for inspiration or comfort. The morning after the Boston Marathon bombings‚ for example‚ the news on television kept bringing up images for me of the science fiction show “Fringe”. Popular movies and television offer‚ to me‚ images and immediate visceral emotional connections. This is our age. So when my father died‚ I did not rattle off a poem. Even as we put together
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In ’Those Winter Sundays’ by Robert Hayden the author describes his hard working father working to looking after his family during hard times. The author describes a period in America during the Great Depression. Accordingly‚ when a man’s duty as would be to provide for his family. Robert Hayden grew up in America great depression when food was scarce as was providing for one’s family wasn’t easy by far. The author seems to be reminiscing and appreciating his father for getting up early on Sunday
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"Love"‚ is often an unrequited emotion experienced by many parental figures. This is displayed in the poem‚ "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden where the speaker is recalling of a time during his childhood where he contemplates the sacrifices his father made for him. The line‚ "Sundays too my father got up early (Line 1)"‚ entails that his or her father awoke every morning and with "cracked hands that ached from labour (Line 3)"‚ undergone his daily routine as the speaker remained oblivious to
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The poem “Those Winter Sundays” was written by Robert Hayden. The poem ’s theme is centralized around the love and commitment of Hayden’s father. The poem expresses how Hayden seen his father as a strict‚ responsible‚ and sometimes angered man. Although his father was strict in his ways‚ he did show his love in his own ways. Hayden wrote this poem in open form. This form allowed his poem to come to life as it moves along. The poem contains fourteen lines and there is no rhythm or rhyming pattern
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Robert Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays” describes a familial relationship between two people‚ and how that makes one of the characters register the sacrifices of his father‚ allowing him to be more grateful and to relinquish his cold attitude. The child’s father could be considered a hardworking man‚ because after a strenuous week of work‚ he continues to fulfill his duties of a parent and tends to his family. “..With cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires
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Those Winter Sundays In the poem‚ “Those Winter Sundays‚” by Robert Hayden‚ he tells a familiar story about the relationship between a parent and a child. The story is that more times than not‚ the child is oblivious to the sacrifices. He talks about the father still getting up on Sundays after a long work week‚ and how he would build a fire to warm up the house before his kids would get out of bed. He would also polish his child’s shoes. He would do all this and no one would ever thank him. “When
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While “Those Winter Sundays”‚ “Let me not to the marriage of true minds”‚ and “Still I Rise” revolve around different themes‚ the authors explore those respective themes by employing similar literary devices‚ effectively enhancing the tone and meaning of their poems thanks to sound. Shakespeare and Hayden’s poems revolve around the theme of love‚ while Angelou delivers a powerful poem about self-empowerment In poetry‚ theme is “an idea that the poem expresses about the subject […] and it may be
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1‚ The poem’s title The title “Those Winter Sundays”‚ winter obviously means cold‚ contrast between cold and warm is one of the important thing in this poem. Sundays mean weekend‚ the day that people stay at home with family. Sundays and labor which mention in the poem is another contrast. 2‚ The speaker and the speaker tone of voice In this poem‚ the speaker is the poet himself. 3‚ The structure and the form of the poem 4‚ The poet’s use of language and diction In the beginning of
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widely from household to household. There are those that have parents and kids who cannot spend more than a few minutes apart‚ while there are others that do not even speak on a daily basis. For the latter‚ there can be a plethora of outcomes from those strained familial relationships. “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden explores some of those issues and their complexities‚ focusing mainly on a breakdown caused by a lack of understanding of all that a father provides to his family as well as broken
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Those Winter Sundays The hard work done by a father is typically overseen by those who rely upon it. It is ever apparent in the poem‚ Those Winter Sundays‚ by Robert Hayden. In the poem‚ the speaker tells of the many cold days his father would wake up early in order to make his family’s life more comfortable. These are thankless acts that are not for acknowledgement nor thanks‚ but for the love of his family. Work goes unnoticed bysp the youth of the family just as much now as it did when this poem
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