Robert Hayden’s language and imagery in his poem “Those Winter Sundays” reveal the speaker’s tone for his childhood indifference to his father’s subtle love as well as his adult admiration for his father’s sacrifice. The speaker‚ an adult now‚ recognizes the indifference that was between him and his father throughout his childhood. He now regrets the times when his father worked hard to provide for the family‚ but never was thanked. The father went through everyday life‚ “laboring on the weekdays
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their relationship‚ others can relate to the message as well. Two poems about this are “Those Winter Sundays” and “How to Change a Frog Into a Prince”. “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden is a poem that explores a grown-up child‚ reflecting on how she was raised. In “How to Change a Frog Into a Prince” Anna Denise shows the process of helping a child grow into a young adult. The poems "Those Winter Sundays" and "How to Change a Frog Into a Prince" show parents trying to learn the process of raising
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The Father-Son Connection One of the most powerful relationships someone ever forms is the connection that they have with their own father. “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden and “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke are both poems that brilliantly describe this powerful relationship between father and son. The feelings that the poets have toward the subject are found deep within the two poems often hidden behind how the character feels toward his own father. Even though these poems were published
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Over the brief time I’ve been driving‚ I found there to be a drastic difference in driving in the winter and driving in the summer. The winter weather brings many dangerous conditions to contend with on the road that the summer does not. Cold‚ wet‚ freezing winters are much harder to drive in than the dryer summer months. First‚ we will look at the similarities in driving during both months. A driver still has the same road rules that apply no matter what season; properly signaling‚ and obeying
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love between a child and their father. The child has a storge type of love for their father and because of this unending love they are advising their father to go against the dying light and to not go gently to instead go out fighting. In “Those Winter Sundays” the love that is presented is that of a familial love between parents and children not like the love story of young couples. This type of love is one that goes without recognition and is the type of love that is quiet and helps you but is
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Memories are not real. Although we try to cling to memories‚ they will never be revived. Both the themes in My Papas Waltz by Theodore Roethke‚ and Grape Sherbet by Rita Dove‚ share a similar idea along with the tone. However the poems are differ greatly in structural aspects. The theme of a poem creates the general moral or idea‚ poems may have themes with deeper meaning than that of the surface of the poem. The themes are similar in the aspect that they both are reflections of the past. Grape
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In Response to "Those Winter Sundays" Being a child‚ is one of the hardest stages of ones life. They go through doing all the wrongs in order to do the right‚ and they socially develop into a mature and sensible human being. During this stage of a young child’s life‚ the roles of parenting are absolutely crucial. In the poem "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden‚ I get a sense that the narrator does not have a special bond with his father‚ and that there is a sense of fear. I feel that in order
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My Papa’s Waltz: brutal or lighthearted? Whenever a poem is written without a clear understanding on how it should be interpreted both positive and negative emotions arise. One might try to pick up on the catchy rhymes that are meant for it to be comical‚ while other notice the harsh adjective and nouns associating with death. When a poem combines the innocence of a child at play associating with a drunken‚ hardworking father a lighthearted and brutal mental picture arises in one’s head. In the
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Love fuels actions What is real love? Do you show it by doing things for them? In his poem “These Winter Sundays” Robert Hayden uses imagery‚ poetic diction‚ and repetition to explore the theme of you do things for the ones you love because you love them. He uses imagery describing the cold tells the reader what his father has to face to warm the house‚ he follows up the description of the cold with talking about his father’s hands- “and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold‚ / then with cracked
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A relatable story The poem “My Papa Waltz” is a childhood memory involving a boy and his father. Some people think this poem portrays a message of abuse from the drunken father‚ others see the happiness of the relationship. This poem in my opinion shows love between the two rather than hate or abuse‚ because of the imagery‚ symbolism‚ and word choice that Theodore Roethke uses. Roethke starts the poem off talking about the whisky on the father’s breath and how it was so strong it ‘Could make
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