Explication Of The Poet's Essay 'Sundays'

The tone in "Those Winter Sundays" is also reflective, yet it establishes a sense of guilt and remorse. The speaker questions inwardly by wondering "What [he] kn[e]w / . . .

The tone of the speaker was very sad, cold and lonely for misses his father. Evidence that support that he misses his father can be found in the poem. The second and the third stanza reflects how he feels about the weather and I think he meant the fall season in which he uses a cold tone “the garden is bare now. The ground is cold, brown and old”, he clearly just mentioning the negative sounding around fall. A lonely tone also found in the last few stanzas, when he mentioned that his food is almost cooked “White rice steaming, almost done. Sweet green peas fried in onions. Shrimp braised in sesame oil and garlic. And my own loneliness. What more could I, a young man, want.”. The part where he said, “And my own

While the attitude toward the father in “Those Winter Sundays” is regretful and the attitude in Bush’s Eulogy is one of adoration, both speakers similarly share an attitude of reflective gratefulness toward their fathers. In “Those Winter Sundays” this attitude can be seen when the speaker reveals how “Sunday’s [his] father woke up early” and “Polished [his] good shoes.” The speaker of the poem writes from a point of reflection, having had time to mature.

In Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays,” sacrifice and naivety carry the connotations of how the parental role in supporting one’s child, and the innocent unawareness of the child, support the interpretation that the generosity and hard work of one can be concealed by a rugged, serious appearance. In “Those Winter Sundays”, the narrator begins the poem by detailing the everyday wakeup and work of his father. While doing so, the narrator focuses on his father’s ugly, harsh features to describe the weight of his father’s endless work on himself. The narrator states how his father gets ready in the morning very early to do labor, despite his weakened and injured hands, “Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands

The tone of the poem changes as the poem progresses. The poem begins with energetic language like “full of heroic tales” and “by a mere swing to his shoulder”. The composer also uses hyperboles like “My father began as a god” and “lifted me to heaven”. The use of this positive language indicates to the responder that the composer is longing for those days – he is nostalgic. It also highlights the perspective of a typical child. The language used in the middle of the poem is highly critical of his father: “A foolish small old man”. This highlights the perspective of a typical teenager and signifies that they have generally conflicting views. The language used in the last section of the poem is more loving and emotional than the rest: “...revealing virtues such as honesty, generosity, integrity”. This draws attention to a mature adult’s perspective.

In stanza 1, Robert Hayden used detail and imagery to portray the grateful tone. Hayden’s father worked hard in any conditions to bring comfort to the household. “Sundays too” the poet’s father “got up early” Sundays are supposed to be a day of rest for the masses, a break from the “labor in the weekday”. Yet, Robert’s father is willing to give up his sleep and comfort for the comfort of his son. This can be thought of like a parent in the Holocaust giving up some of their rations to their son or daughter. Sacrificing common human comforts to give relief to family member is not an easy thing to do, especially facing such difficult circumstances as that, yet, often; parents are willing to do it. Robert Hayden now sees that he witnessed this in his father, and is grateful for it. Robert’s father would not just have to arise early, but also “put his clothes on in the blueblack cold” as well. Getting rid of the cold is the very reason that the father gets up in the

In many instances do we grow old and look back on our life and wish things could have been different. We change our perceptions through significant experiences and the gradual road towards maturity. In Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Nights”, there is a consistently vivid depiction of a man who is recalling the sacrifices his father made for him when he was younger. Although, the tone is regretful and gloomy as the speaker is recognizing his father’s love and sacrifice for him was presented differently and he took it for granted. At a young age, it is easy for one to not recognize love and selflessness if it is not expressed through directness.

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On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, members of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army occupied Dublin’s General Post Office, and from its steps, Patrick Pearse read a proclamation of the Irish Republic. The British military responded with force, and the Easter Rising, as it became known, came to an end with the rebels’ surrender on April 29. In England at the time, W. B. Yeats learned about the Rising mostly through newspapers and through letters from his friend and patroness, Lady Gregory. As the British forces imposed martial law and, in early May, executed fifteen of the Rising’s leaders, some of whom Yeats knew personally, the events in Ireland moved Yeats to begin writing the poem which became “Easter, 1916.”

Before I reveal the theme of the poem “Sunday Greens” to you, I will have to give you all the details and the background of the poet, Rita Dove. First of all the poet, Rita Dove, is a female who wants people to understand life in her way. The poem that Rita Dove wrote was “Sunday Greens”, and it is about a girl who has a tough life because she has to always cook the same food that everyone eats for her family. She wants to change her life and be free so, she can cook anything she wants like “S+” food. We all can see why she wants to change her life because her house stinks and her husband just sleeps, while she has work really hard to keep her life happy. She later remembers that her mother has the same exact life she has, and she realizes that her kids will probably have the same life as her. After reading all of the stanzas carefully, I have found the theme of the poem. And that lead me to think that you should change your life if you hate it because if you don’t,

At the time of World War I, many modern poets began to reconsider their own perspectives about personal philosophy and beliefs. For Wallace Stevens, this period leads to his gradual realization that modern religion no longer makes sense as a source of comfort. In coming to this conclusion, Stevens replaces belief in Christianity with a greater appreciation for nature and everyday beauty. In “Sunday Morning” Steven’s gradually asserts his belief that in the modern era Christian theology disrupts the life, whereas appreciation for nature can provide better spiritual support. Wallace Stevens's “Sunday Morning” argues that belief in Christian faith is no longer sufficient for dealing with the horrors of modern society, suggesting instead that faith in nature serves as a better source of personal relfection.

Summer has come to an end. School is back in full swing and ready to crush the challenges a 5th grader faces. The second to last bell of the day sounds triggering young boy’s to race outside and enjoy the sun’s warmth on their last break before the weekend. While horse playing name calling immediately starts. Challenging each other to accomplish silly acts or flirt with the group of girls across the playground. Recess is almost over when one yells out “if you don’t jump from the top you are a sissy.” Then one hears “ask Julie out first.” Another one shouts out “he won’t….he’s gay.” Silence has now taken over the playground. Saved by the bell it was time to line up and go back to class. Now the final bell for the day has rung and ready to start the weekend and free from the teachers nagging voice. While having dinner chitchatting about one other’s day the young lad asks his parents if he could join the Boy Scouts. Suddenly, dinner appeared to be over. Quickly dad springs up and authoritative smacks his hand against the table in disgust. One hears in an extremely stern voice “my son is not gay nor will he join any gay organization while living under this roof.”

This arising tone of regret and distance is also formed by the speaker’s depiction of his father having “cracked hands that ached,” (1. 3) which further signifies the father’s struggle with the severe coldness. The concept of self-sacrifice is apparent in this portrayal of his father’s disregard to his own pain in order to provide warmth and light for his family’s home. The stirring of “banked fires blaze” (1. 5) within the house,

One of the numerous hobbies of mine, is watching movies and television shows. However, these films and shows can influence a person in both a negative and positive way. In fact, when I was obsessed with a television show last year, based on the original Disney movie “Beauty and the Beast”. I strangely had the urge to follow in one of the character’s footsteps, in being a police officer. So later I had started researching qualifications to join the police academy. When the realization hit me, that I was distracted by the character’s desires for being an officer, I was dumbfounded. According to the poem “Sunday Greens”, by Rita Dove, the author is attempting to inform her audience certain people get sidetracked by other people’s desires in life. Therefore, leading them to not pursue the life that they want. The tone of the poem, that the author uses, establishes the theme. Then it is introduced again, when the author is shifting the plot of the poem. The poem is in a woman’s point of view, she yearns for a different, prideful and wealthy life, She compares the ham that is cooking on the stove, and describes the occurring events in her life. The poem comes to an end, when the woman demonstrates her sorrow towards a memory of her mother.

Other than the title, the visual sensory images of the body of the poem also support the contrast and change in the speaker’s perspective. The first stanza implies the eagerness of the father to carry out simple chores for his family as he does not fail to accomplish on Sundays the same task he tirelessly does “on every other day of the week...On every day, Monday through Saturday, and even on Sundays too” (Johnson, par. 1). The first line may denote the father's care, however, the nonchalance on the part of the speaker in “Sundays too my father got up early” (Hayden 1) is also apparent. It could be that the line is a mere statement of a simple recollection, but is also indicative of how the speaker trivializes the father’s early morning efforts. If in the first line the speaker offhandedly remarks about the early morning efforts of the father, the speaker, in the following lines, shows more concern in sharing minute details about the condition in which the father carried out his morning tasks. In fact, the nonchalance in the first line suddenly changes as said line contributes to the intensity of the image of “and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, / then with cracked hands that ached/ from labor in the weekday weather made” (Hayden 3-4). From the uninteresting normalness of the routine, the image changes to one of selflessness as with the phrase “the