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Analysis Of "Those Winter Sun - Term Papers

Analysis Of "Those Winter Sun

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The poem " Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden is my favorite poem.
It is full of deep affections not only in its words but also in the visual structure of the stanzas. In this particular poem, Hayden recounts that in winter Sunday mornings, his father always gets up in the cold and builds a fire for him, the child, so that he could get out of bed into a warm house. However, he failed to appreciate his father's love. This brief and lovely poem captures the sense of poignancy inherent love in the father-son relationship.
The poet is the obvious speaker who is a man recalled getting alone with his father when he was a child. Hayden wrote this poem in 1962 when he was
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show that his father woke up before everyone else to light the fire.

Sundays too my father got up early
And put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

Sunday is not a workday, and his father could have slept late. However, he
did not do like that. The plural noun " Sundays" is associated with the word "too" to emphasize that his father always got up early. Hayden makes the reader feel and suffer the bitter cold, by appealing to our senses of touch and sight. It is easy to see the "blueblack cold," and feel the roughness of the "cracked hands that ached". At the same time, "cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather" connotes that the father was a hard working labor , who was
desperately trying to provide for his family. His father made "banked fires blaze" by "cracked hands". However, ...

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Added: 5/5/2008 10:22:17 AM
Category: English
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