“Winter Dreams” is an excellent short story. The setting and tone of “Winter Dreams” draw the reader into the story wonderfully. The story “Winter Dreams” takes place mainly in Black Bear, Minnesota, sometime before World War I. The town sounds, to the reader, idyllic and peaceful.…
This one uses personification to give the reader the clue that the weather is freezing temperatures and cold. This leaves us with either a playful tone, since we can assume that it is winter and children are playing, or a tone of solitude since with colder weather comes less people out and about. Another example of a literary element is this quote; “... Housewives lumbering like great black bears in their furs along the icy…
Although “Still I Rise”, “Those Winter Sundays”, and “Unwelcome” all analyze the theme of unwantedness, they utilize different literary devices and figurative language such as repetition and symbolism to build up the audience’s sympathy while in conjunction of creating a strong rhythm with the use of consonance and rhyme scheme. Poetry allows authors to express the hardships that may have taken place within their lives with the use of literary devices. For example, in the poems “Still I Rise” and “Those Winter Sundays” the authors utilize repetition to maintain self-respect and love. Receiving hate drives Angelou to express that, “You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still,…
A family either has the ability to be happy or to not be happy. Happiness, whether granted or earned, should be sought within family, not money or elsewhere. Dependence on practical and emotional support ordinarily lands upon family. It provides a state of comfort that leads to happiness. Reminiscing through the plethora of memories a family has built together also provides the same well-being.…
Different eras in American literature have diverse characteristics, therefore, it is challenging to discover pieces of writing from separate eras that exhibit the same characteristics. Light romantic era and modernism prose have quite little in common, however, authors Washington Irving and F. Scott Fitzgerald show various traits that are comparable. Irving wrote “The Devil and Tom Walker” in the light romantic era, it is quite literally regarding Tom Walker and the devil. Tom Walker meets the devil accidentally and discovers a deal where he can make a substantial investment which will make him rich. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote “Winter Dreams” in the modernism prose era.…
The line “and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold” (2), is interesting due to the amount of imagery allowing the reader to feel as if they are in the room. The cold is being described in an identical style of a bruise, which helps with the reader get a better perception of the negative connotation throughout the poem. The following line “then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him” (3-5) this specific quote truly shows the narrators guilt and regret of under appreciation toward his father. Hayden’s use of great detail describing the speaker’s father’s hands, develops a realization for the reader of the sacrifices made by the father every…
Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” is touching, but also sad. The feeling of regret is a tough emotion to carry. The father, however, did not need any thanks. While it may have been a nice gesture and I am sure he would have appreciated it, he did not do it for the thanks. He did it because of the unconditional love that a parent has for their child.…
“Those Winter Sundays” is technically a sonnet as it has 14 lines, however, it does not rhyme and is not in iambic pentameter. Nevertheless, sonnets are frequently identified as an expression of love and although “Those Winter Sundays” describes a love a father shows his children, it shares this commonality. In contrast, “We Real Cool” is broken in four stanzas, each containing a two line couplet. The rhyme is in the middle of the couplet not the end like many traditional poems giving readers a sense of continuity as the poem flows from line to line.…
This past Sunday I attended the school play, which was a comedy based along the storylines of The Christmas Carol. I noticed many people from the community brought their children along for the comedy. For someone who doesn’t really care for plays, or Christmas it was somewhat interesting to go into the play having doubts beforehand and coming out of it with a different view. The exposition started off the same as The Christmas Carrol.…
A father’s love for his son is not always seen. In the poem, “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden, the narrator is talking about how he regrets not realizing and thanking his father for all the suffering and good that his father has done for him. The author uses imagery and diction to portray a better image about the narrator's regret for not noticing his father’s good deeds sooner. One of the more commonly used literary element in the poem “Those Winter Sundays” is imagery. The author uses imagery to emphasize the regrets that the speaker has about his father.…
One of the main messages that make “Winter Stars” so effective is Levis’ message that he is trying to portray to the reader; that message is forgiveness. Levis depiction of his regret of not making up with his father is one of the two main points of this poem. He illustrates this message in quotes like: “I stand out on the street, & do not go in” and “That what went unsaid between us became empty, And pure, like starlight, & that it persisted” (Levis). It took Levis’ father dying on his death bed to finial realise that he should make up with his father before it is too late “Cold enough to reconcile Even a father, even a son.” (Levis).…
In the poem The Cross Of Snow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The author writes about a tragic death that happened to his wife eighteen years back. To express his emotions in a way that the readers can understand, the author uses devices like alliteration and metaphor in his poem. These devices help the author write a well developed poem that has a balance of emotions and a moral behind it. First of foremost, the author uses alliteration to connect his loss with the way he feels in terms of a poem. For example, he states, “The Legend of a life more benedight.”…
In “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden and “My Father’s Song” by Simon J. Ortiz, there is love found within by a man’s memories of his childhood relationship with his Father. “Those Winter Sundays” is about a man who is remembering the relationship he had with his father through regret, because he realizes how unappreciative he was. “My Father’s Song” is a man reminiscing on the actions his father makes when showing him the value of life and how to grow up. Within both of these poems the father-son relationship does not show verbal communication. In “Those Winter Sundays,” this lack of communication helps indicate the distance between the two, whereas the communication breakdown in “My Father’s Song” reflects the connection that the two…
The speaker’s father in “Those Winter Sundays” puts more effort into domestic labor so he can provide his family the basic tools they need for survival. As a result, his relationship with his son suffers. Something always slips through the…
This developing tone of regret and distance is also created through the speaker’ representation of his father with “cracked hands that ached,” which indicates the father’s struggle with the harsh coldness. The “stirring of banked fires” within…