Comparing Piano And Those Winter Sundays

This song had some literary devices I wanted to discuss. One of the literary devices that got my attention was imagery. This song has imagery because in (1:1) it say “ White Christmas” this makes me imagine the snow falling during the time in December. You can also imagine people having fun, spending time with their family during a “ White Christma.” Another imagery that many people can imagine is (1:6) “

The common theme they share is if something needs to be done you have to go and achieve it. In the poem it says “The people I love the best jump into work head first, without dallying in the shallows.” In the poem the last sentence says that the kids are walking through the snow and no person or thing is going to stop them from getting to school. It also states that he has to shovel snow he said “ he could leave it undisturbed” but he said he has obligations and the kids walk down his street to get to the school, he had to get it done so the kids could walk to school. There was another snowfall after he had just got done shoveling snow the first time and he knew that he had to shovel it again so he went outside and shoveled it again. The poem

The author uses imagery in the poem to enable the reader to see what the speaker sees. For example, in lines 4-11 the speaker describes to us the

The poem “Those Winter Sundays” is from the point of view of a child speaking about his father. The author, Robert Hayden, uses diction and symbolism to display how the son is uncaring and indifferent to his father until the tone shift, where the son is regretful for his actions.

Regret is shown in “Those Winter Sunday’s” by using diction. The way he uses the words in the poem help the reader understand the regret the narrator is feeling. Robert Hayden’s diction makes the poem run smoothly and easy to understand and read. The diction in the last stanza is calmer than in the other two. The third stanza shows that the narrator understood what his father went through and that his father really loved him. The words in the first two stanzas are harsher. Two examples are “blackblue cold” and “cracked hands” (540). Robert Hayden choice these words for emphasis. He also uses these words as a contrast. A contrast between hot and cold. An example of this is when he says, “and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold” (540). He is emphasizing how cold the air was compared to his warm clothes. Hayden emphasis the work that the father had to go through so his family did not have too.

In “Those Winter Sundays” the father isn’t shown the appreciation he deserves. He gets up early on Sundays and works with “cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather” (3-4). In “ My Papa’s Waltz,” the father is not as hard-working as the father in “Those Winter Sundays.” He was a drunk, as shown in the text when, “The whiskey on your breath could make a small boy dizzy” (1-2). This poem

The first example of imagery was on line 1 of stanza 1, ‘’ It’s a dark and cloudy morning’’. This example is creating a dark atmosphere. This impacted the poem because it set the setting for the rest of the poem. The author created a sad or dark mood by having a dark atmosphere.

¨Those Winter Sundays¨ by Robert Hayden and ¨Snapping Beans¨ by Lisa Parker are two different narrative poems that share the same theme. Similarly both poems consist of a speaker being affected by the relationship they have with their elders. In ¨Those Winter Sundays¨ the speaker tells us about his hardworking father who takes care of his kids even though he may come off as a harsh father. The speaker of ¨Snapping Beans¨ is a granddaughter who discusses about the change that she is going through but is afraid to tell the person that raised her. Therefore this essay compares the two poems with respect to the speaker's feelings and morals.

Each of the poems relies heavily on imagery to convey their respective messages. Often throughout each of the poems, the imagery is that of people. However, each uses similar imagery to very different, yet effective ways to explore the same

Throughout “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden, he uses many devices such as imagery and a reflective tone to contribute to the overall theme which is what someone does for others is not always appreciated and one may not appreciate what someone does for them until it’s too late. Firstly, the author uses imagery in the poem in lines three through five, which states, “then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze.” The use of imagery that describes how the father’s hands look after doing all of his work emphasizes that the father does a lot for the family. While the father does all this work, no one is appreciative of what he has done for them.

The imagery shows that since the character is young and responsible, he works to support him and his family. We are first introduced to the image of the young boy working as a young adult. Then, in the first 9 lines, the author describes the setting of the poem using imagery such as, “sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it,” “Five mountain ranges one behind the other,” “under the sunset far into

The three stanzas show the passage of time throughout a Sunday morning, with the father waking up early to warm the house and prepare to go to church, and with the author rising with fear and treating his father with indifference; blind to the work he did out of love. In this way the stanzas all show the relationship between the father and his son. The first stanza establishes how hard the father works for his family, even on a Sunday, and

A child’s future is usually determined by how their parent’s raise them. Their characteristics reflect how life at home was like, if it had an impeccable effect or destroyed the child’s entire outlook on life. Usually, authors of any type of literature use their experiences in life to help inspire their writing and develop emotion to their works. Poetry is a type of literary work in which there is an intensity given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinct styles and rhythm. These distinct styles include different types of poems such as sonnets, villanelles, free verse, imagist poems, and many more. And these distinct styles are accentuated with the use of literary devices such as metaphors, similes, imagery, personification, rhyme, meter, and more. As a whole, a poem depicts emotions the author and reader’s can relate to. In the poem’s “Those Winter Sundays,” by Robert Hayden, and “My Papa’s Waltz,” by Theodore Roethke, we read about two different parent and child relationships. These two poems help portray the flaws and strength’s parents exhibit and how their children follow their actions and use it as a take away in their grown up lives.

Although Robert Hayden and Sylvia Plath both use vivid imagery to display their fathers, the way the authors use imagery is different. In Plath’s “Daddy,” she uses imagery to paint a dark picture of a Nazi who holds the title of her father. She uses imagery to compare her father to a black, confining shoe. She compares herself to a foot that has been living in the shoe for thirty years (Plath 290). The shoe metaphor represents her confinement under her father’s rule, but she is finally free. Because freedom from confinement is one of the main themes for “Daddy,” Plath’s use of imagery contributes to the theme of the poem. Conversely, Robert Hayden uses imagery in “Those Winter Sundays” to display his father’s work ethic. He uses works like, “cracked hands,” and “blueblack cold,” to show the conditions that his father went through because of his love for his children (Hayden 288). Hayden’s use of imagery helps to show the theme of “Those Winter Sundays,” regret for being unappreciative of a father’s love, by showing the obstacles that Hayden’s father went through for his son. The authors use of imagery helps display the overall themes of the poems by demonstrating their fathers’ character.

In the poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden, the speaker is reflecting on his past with his father, but mainly the Sunday mornings he experienced during his childhood. Throughout the poem, there also happens to be a very dark and possibly even somber tone, which is shown by using several different types of literary devices. Hayden utilizes strong imagery supported by diction and substantial symbolism comprehensively. Furthermore, there are various examples of both alliteration and assonances. The poem does not rhyme and its meter has little to no order. Although the father labors diligently all day long, and he still manages to be a caring person in his son’s life. The poem’s main conflict comes from the son not realizing how good his father actually was to him until he was much older. When the speaker was a young boy, he regarded his father as a callous man due to his stern attitude and apparent lack of proper affection towards him. Now that the son is older, he discovers that even though his father did not express his love in words, he consistently did with his acts of kindness and selflessness.