Ethose Winter Sundays Rhetorical Analysis Essay
Bridget Corkos
Period 2
6 January 2015
¨Those Winter Sundays¨ by Robert Hayden
Thesis: After realizing the sacrifices his father made, the speaker uses diction and imagery to pay respect to his father.
The speaker uses stylistic devices to acknowledge how hard his father works to make his life comfortable. The father gets up early on Sundays to the ¨blueblack cold¨ of the house. The father sacrifices his warmth in the painfully cold temperature conveying that not only is it an emotional sacrifice but also a physical sacrifice that the speaker did not appreciate. The speaker uses ¨got up¨ and ¨put his clothes on¨ to describe his father, but uses the words ¨rise¨ and ¨dress¨ for himself. The way his father gets ready is colloquial while the way he gets ready is
Period 2
6 January 2015
¨Those Winter Sundays¨ by Robert Hayden
Thesis: After realizing the sacrifices his father made, the speaker uses diction and imagery to pay respect to his father.
The speaker uses stylistic devices to acknowledge how hard his father works to make his life comfortable. The father gets up early on Sundays to the ¨blueblack cold¨ of the house. The father sacrifices his warmth in the painfully cold temperature conveying that not only is it an emotional sacrifice but also a physical sacrifice that the speaker did not appreciate. The speaker uses ¨got up¨ and ¨put his clothes on¨ to describe his father, but uses the words ¨rise¨ and ¨dress¨ for himself. The way his father gets ready is colloquial while the way he gets ready is