Alliteration In Those Winter Sundays

728 Words3 Pages
Rothschild, Ty Poem Explication English II (Professor Johnson) “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden “Those Winter Sundays” is a poem that was published in 1962 by the poet Robert Hayden. The poem is considered a “Sonnet-Style” poem that uses alliteration, and also contains many hard consonants within its body. The speaker shows a balance of love and regret while speaking of his remembrance of his father, particularly on Sunday mornings. “Those Winter Sundays” qualifies as a sonnet style poem in the basic sense that it has 14 lines. However, it is not purely sonnet considering that not all of the lines have ten and syllables. The poem doesn’t really rhyme, and it also does not have a regular meter. The poet uses alliteration in parts of the poem, such as…show more content…
“Those Winter Sundays” is a poem that makes you think twice about the little things that people who you are close to do for you. The speaker starts out talking about how is father would get up early on Sunday mornings and got up in the “blueblack cold” and began working. The speaker uses the phrase “blueback cold” (synesthesia), to give you a better since of imagery by linking a color to a physical feeling. The term “blueback” gives you a sense of being cold, which ties into the rest of the poem, and makes you understand the struggle that his father went through with stronger imagery. The speaker goes on to describe how his father has “cracked hands that ached” which suggests that his father was a hardworking man at his regular job, and was working hard even on his day off to make sure that his family was having comfort. The ending of the following line, which states “No one ever thanked him.” Tells what the poem is actually about. That statement shows that it wasn’t until later in life that the speaker realized what his father actually did too support his family, and that still bothers the speaker in the present time. The speaker goes on to talk about how he would awake
Show More
Related

  • How Does Hayden Use Imagery In Those Winter Sundays

    1466 Words  | 6 Pages

    Personal response to Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden My mother sighs as my brother complains about the meal we are eating. “Why must we always eat the same food?” he whines. This scene repeats itself every night and each time my mother grows wearier. My mother is permanently busy. Either she’s at work, or at home washing clothes, cleaning dishes, cleaning the house, doing yard work, fetching groceries, or preparing meals. She refuses all assistance offered. Due to this she is constantly tired

    Read More

  • Oedipus And The Pearl Quiz Essay

    856 Words  | 4 Pages

    color is permanent, the poverty still exist, a lot of people live in houses full of cockroaches and poverty. We still have cohabitation, family living together with mother and adult married children in the same house. 6) An example of alliteration is In Those Winter Sundays ``Forgetting your coffee spreading on our

    Read More

  • Those Winter Sundays Figurative Language

    1073 Words  | 5 Pages

    a youth’s regret for not understanding his father’s behavior was an expression of love in his poem, “ Those Winter Sundays.” The poem depicts an image of a hardworking but undemonstrative father performing trivial routines to take care of his son and family morning after morning, but the son never takes the time to thank his father for his concern. In Robert Hayden’s poem, “Those Winter Sundays”, he creates a touching but regretful story of the relationship between

    Read More

More about Alliteration In Those Winter Sundays

Open Document