Those Winter Sunday's Poem Analysis

The capabilities put forth through educated minds is the framework for great poetry. A poet can be described as a person who articulates creativity and beauty of thought, language, and the structure of words. Poetry is the literary work produced by poets, in which extreme levels of affection and ideas are expressed through the unique technique using rhythm and words. Both poets Theodore Roethke and Robert Hayden are influential literary authors and following them are a great number of educated minds in frameworks. Two well-known and respected poetic works published by Hayden and Roethke are, Those Winter Sunday’s and My Papa’s Waltz. Both poems show a varied perspective on Man vs. Man conflict between a father and a son. Man vs. Man, also known as man against self-conflict, is said to be an internal struggle. An internal struggle usually results in a major character overcoming a conflict within themselves.
Robert Hayden, the author of Those Winter Sunday’s, original …show more content…
Repetition is also described to be a sound device used to provide a reader or audience with a better understanding of a literary work. An example of repetition in this poem Those Winter Sunday’s written by Hayden is “what did I know, what did I know”. This is an example of a rhetorical question, or a question asked expected not to have an answer. This example of rhetorical question used in this poetic piece is to articulate the speaker’s affection towards the topics of unawareness and remorse.
In Roethke’s poem My Papa’s Waltz, the reader is introduced to a unique scene of the thrashing of an adolescent by his father. The narrative is described in the tone of romance compared to the traditional dance, The Waltz. The tone built behind the poem doesn’t seemed to be frighten or scared, leaving the reader to assume the speaker enjoyed the experience. Or at least trying to embellish the experience by comparing it to the dance The