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    Analysis of Those Winter Sundays Through metaphors and meticulous word choice Robert Hayden illustrates people taking loved ones for granted in his poem‚ Those Winter Sundays. Words with negative connotations and the use of repetition underscores the underlying mood of remorse upon the speaker’s further reflection on their childhood. The sounds of the words when spoken and the choices the author made in choosing certain words is undoubtedly intentional in developing the dejected mood and overall

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    Robert Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays” describes a familial relationship between two people‚ and how that makes one of the characters register the sacrifices of his father‚ allowing him to be more grateful and to relinquish his cold attitude. The child’s father could be considered a hardworking man‚ because after a strenuous week of work‚ he continues to fulfill his duties of a parent and tends to his family. “..With cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires

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    Speak For Those Who Can’t Do the companies L’Oreal‚ Lancome‚ Garnier‚ Maybelline‚ Sephora‚ and Neutrogena sound familiar? All of these companies take part in animal testing. Every year 19.5 million animals die in testing every year‚ and these companies are involved. Products produced by these companies are some that one may use every day. Hopefully whoever uses their products feels guilty for putting those animals in all that pain and torture just to look pretty. Certainly‚ this is not a liable

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    Poetry is a collection of words that tell stories‚ paint pictures and stir up emotions. Poems can be interpreted differently by each reader. Some find a particular poem to have a specific meaning‚ while another could find a completely opposite meaning. Poems often use imagery and simile or metaphors to illustrate an idea‚ thought or emotion. In this paper we will look at three poems that have a similar topic: fathers. The first poem is titled “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden. This poem is

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    Do Beauty Pageants Serve a Purpose in Today’s Sociey? Saundra Dugger Com 220 Mr. Atkins May 22‚2010 Do beauty contests really serve a purpose in today’s society? There are many different kinds of beauty contests these days. They are for both men and women and range from infants to adults in age. Beauty contests do not serve a purpose in today’s society. The only thing that it is doing is putting in young girls’ minds and a woman’s that they have to be beautiful. We need to teach the younger generations

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    medium to successfully engage the audience and make them reflect upon what is being presented. Here Davis can effectively initiate an attitudinal change towards the situation of the Aborigines through the manipulation of staging‚ symbolism‚ characterisation and dialogue. The play seeks to expose the racist attitudes experienced by Indigenous people at the hands of the white authority‚ whilst simultaneously promoting the strength of those suffering‚ hoping to defy the oppressors and challenge the white

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    reflect. Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” is a good example of a poem that helped me put my own father’s life‚ and his role in my life‚ in perspective. It’s a process that’s been happening as he slowly faded over the past few years‚ and will continue as the grass grows over his grave. (A friend‚ unfortunately‚ does the same thing with “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke. You can go to the Poetry Foundation page here for that sad poem.) The poem guide for “Those Winter Sundays” and related

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    Those Winter Sundays By Robert Hayden’s Robert Hayden’s Poem‚ "Those Winter Sundays‚" is the perfect example of a life lesson. As a child growing up there are things we do not realize but eventually life reveals the significance of curtain things and in this poem Hayden’s has this experience. This poem shows how we take things and people closest to us for granted. He does this in three ways‚ blatantly‚ with the language he uses‚ and also with the mood and tone he sets. The speaker

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    "Love"‚ is often an unrequited emotion experienced by many parental figures. This is displayed in the poem‚ "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden where the speaker is recalling of a time during his childhood where he contemplates the sacrifices his father made for him. The line‚ "Sundays too my father got up early (Line 1)"‚ entails that his or her father awoke every morning and with "cracked hands that ached from labour (Line 3)"‚ undergone his daily routine as the speaker remained oblivious to

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    The poems “Daystar” by Rita Dove and “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden share many similar themes. The main theme that these two poems share is being unappreciated. Both narrators used specific language and imagery to support this theme. In the poem “Those Winter Sundays” the father is described to wake up every morning even on Sundays also‚ to warm the house up for his child. He worked all week doing labor and “No one ever thanked him” is a hint that people around him were very unappreciative

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