Analysis Of Those Winter Sundays
Speaker in poetry Christen Borgersrode
I chose to write about “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden. This poem was a touching memory as the speaker looked back on how he never thanked his father for all he did on those chilly Sunday mornings.
In lines one through five the speaker talks about how the father would always get up in the early morning, in the “blueblack cold”, and get a fire started to warm the house after working hard that previous week. This shows that the father worked hard to make sure that the son had a warm, comfortable life. The speaker then says how no one ever thanked his father for all he did. The speaker seems to have some sort of remorse or regret that he never thanked his father.
In lines six and seven the
speaker tells us how he would get up after the bedroom was warm and when his father called him. He lets us know that he feared his father with lines eight and nine, "and slowly I would rise and dress, / fearing the chronic angers of that house.". By choosing the words "chronic angers", the writer adds a bite to the poem. The son could fear his father like any son is, but the tone makes it have a different meaning. Such as why he seems to have a constant anger with no purpose. With the father having to start a fire, could the father be angry about their living situation?
Hayden also used harsh sounding phrases such as, blueblack cold, cold splintering, banked fires blaze, cracked hands, and breaking. This adds a somewhat harsher tone to the poem when describing how hard the father worked. If he would have just used simpler words, it wouldn’t have had an impact like the words did.
In lines ten through twelve we see all the regret the speaker has. He talks about how he didn’t speak to his father with any interest. He never once thanked his father who had who had driven out the cold and polished his shoes. In lines thirteen and fourteen the speaker tells how he never realized all his father did and the extent of his father’s love. The speaker, now older, realizes how much his father loved him and how his life revolved around his son.
I chose to write about “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden. This poem was a touching memory as the speaker looked back on how he never thanked his father for all he did on those chilly Sunday mornings.
In lines one through five the speaker talks about how the father would always get up in the early morning, in the “blueblack cold”, and get a fire started to warm the house after working hard that previous week. This shows that the father worked hard to make sure that the son had a warm, comfortable life. The speaker then says how no one ever thanked his father for all he did. The speaker seems to have some sort of remorse or regret that he never thanked his father.
In lines six and seven the
speaker tells us how he would get up after the bedroom was warm and when his father called him. He lets us know that he feared his father with lines eight and nine, "and slowly I would rise and dress, / fearing the chronic angers of that house.". By choosing the words "chronic angers", the writer adds a bite to the poem. The son could fear his father like any son is, but the tone makes it have a different meaning. Such as why he seems to have a constant anger with no purpose. With the father having to start a fire, could the father be angry about their living situation?
Hayden also used harsh sounding phrases such as, blueblack cold, cold splintering, banked fires blaze, cracked hands, and breaking. This adds a somewhat harsher tone to the poem when describing how hard the father worked. If he would have just used simpler words, it wouldn’t have had an impact like the words did.
In lines ten through twelve we see all the regret the speaker has. He talks about how he didn’t speak to his father with any interest. He never once thanked his father who had who had driven out the cold and polished his shoes. In lines thirteen and fourteen the speaker tells how he never realized all his father did and the extent of his father’s love. The speaker, now older, realizes how much his father loved him and how his life revolved around his son.