Poets create poetry based on their lives and experiences. While reading poetry each reader can interpret what the poem is about. The reader can take those words and relate them back to their own lives. While I read the poetry I related the stories to own life and found that these people have problems greater than mine. Poetry taught me that I need to value and appreciate my life because some people have it worse. Growing up I had two parents that were together and both loved me. My Father was a
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Morals and lessons are developed through discipline‚ imitation‚ and learned respect for oneself and society. Some parents show love and affection whereas others shape their children with respect and stern discipline. In the poems "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden and "My Papa’s Waltz" by Theodore Roethke‚ a relationship between a father and son are portrayed as both authors reflect on their own childhood experiences. While the two poems have similarities; in that‚ the fathers work hard and
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The poems Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden and My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke are two very similar works of literature. Both poems deal with the narrator looking back on the lives of their fathers and recalling certain events from the past. Those Winter Sundays deals with the narrator looking back on how her father sacrificed everything for the family and was never fully appreciated. My Papa’s Waltz deals with the narrator looking back at a time where he played joyfully with his father
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TANYA MOONEY COMPARE AND CONTRAST FOLLOWER & THOSE WINTER SUNDAYS SEAMUS HEANEY Was born in April 1939‚ the eldest of nine children. His father owned and worked on a farm of 50 acres in co Derry. His mother came from a family called McCann‚ she was a very out spoken woman‚ whilst his father sparing of talk‚ Heaney believes the difference in temperament led to a ’quarrel with himself’‚ from which his peotry arises. At the age of 11‚ Heaney won a scholarship to St Columb’s college
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Teacher World Literature I January 15‚ 2009 “Those Winter Sundays” and “My Papa’s Waltz” The two poems‚ “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden and “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke‚ seem to have a very similar theme. Both of them tell a story‚ from an inside point of view‚ of a child who is looking back on the lives of their father’s by recalling and telling of certain events that occurred in their past. In “Those Winter Sundays” the narrator‚ obviously a female‚ “and slowly I would
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“Those winter Sundays” is a poem in which the author narrates his experience as a child living with his father. The writer starts by saying “Sunday too my father got up early.” It is to be noted that he was conveying how early his father gets up every morning and even on Sundays‚ supposedly a holiday for his dad. Next‚ the author narrates how hard his dad works and what type of job he has. “Then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather” this phrase reveals that the authors
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‘“The Secret Heart”‚ by Robert Peter Tristram‚ was about the narrator’s father showing him love by checking on him while he is sleeping‚ to ensure that the narrator was safe and sleeping peacefully. The poem by Robert Hayden‚ “Those Winter Sundays”‚ was about the narrator being ungrateful to his father and did not appreciate the things his father did for him. The theme that both poems have in common was that you should express your love before it is too late. From the poem‚ “The Secret Heart”‚ the
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Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays” is about a man lacking appreciation for the hard work and dedication that he does on a day to day basis for his job‚ but his child loves and appreciates him for all of the hard work that he does. The poem was from a child’s point of view and the theme of Those Winter Sundays is created through the stream of consciousness‚ conflicts‚ symbolism‚ and a flat/ static relationship of the poem. The father rises early on Sundays after a dense week of work‚ it seems as
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Writers often use literary techniques to relay the meaning of their works to their audience. In “The Whipping”‚ Robert Hayden uses structure‚ imagery‚ and sound devices to transmit the inhumanity of abuse‚ and how beatings lead to a cycle of abuse. Structure plays an important role in the meaning of this poem. The cruelness of abuse is amplified through enjambment and emphasis on the last word of the sentence. When the lady beats the boy ‚ no pronunciation is used‚ which allows the poem to flow
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The portrayal of Father to child Relationship in Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” According to photographer and designer Anne Geddes‚ “Any man can be a father but it takes someone special to be a dad.” Being a father is not a simple task. “Those Winter Sundays” exemplifies how difficult fatherhood could be‚ and how parent to children affection could be hidden by certain circumstances‚ such as hard living. Through the poem Robert Hayden shows how the speaker is ashamed in believing that
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