analysis_of_those_winter_sundays.docVIP

An analysis of the poem “Those Winter Sundays” Abstract: The beauty of the poem in their linguistic features including phonological features, sound effects and figures of speech. This paper is gong to analyze these features in a poem written by Robert Hayden---Those Winter Sundays. Key words: Robert Hayden, phonological, sound effects and figures of speech. About the author: Robert Hayden (1913—1980). Hayden is an African American poet, essayist, and educator. He was appointed Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1976. He had ever studied in Wayne State University（1936）and the University of Michigan(1944) which he taught in from 1969 to his death in 1980. His notable works are Heart-Shape in the Dust (1940) , Figure of Time(1955), Erma Inez Morris and Frederick Douglass. About the poem: This poem consists of three quatrains, which is a fourteen-line lyric poem in free verse. ..In Those Winter Sundays, an adult speaker presents memories of how his father expressed love for him through his actions. In particular, the speaker remembers that his father rose very early on Sunday mornings to stoke the furnace fire. Only when the house was warm did he awaken his son to dress. The tone is emotional, regretful...Line 12 notes that the father also polished his sons good shoes, indicating that he will be taking or sending his son to church. (Where else would a child wear his good shoes on Sunday but to church?) Thus, the father takes seriously the moral upbringing of his boy. This is very emotional. The phrase chronic angers in line 9 is open to interpretation. It could mean that sternly scolds his son from time to time or that arguments are commonplace in the household. It seems clear, though, that he is a good father. He accomplishes his Sunday tasks with aching, skin-cracked hands subjected during the week to the fierce cold he endures on the job. The last two stanzas show us that the son’s realization for his father’s love...The adult speaker regrets now