Mood, Imagery And Metaphors In Those Winter Sundays By Robert Hayden

This paper will be analyzing and interpreting three poems about fathers such as mood, imagery and metaphor. The first poem that is going to be discussed is “Those Winter Sundays” By Robert Hayden, This poem discusses his childhood and he thinks back to the sacrifices his father made for his family. He discussed how his father was a hard worker would get up early in the cold weather to make sure the house was warm when his family awoke. One of the examples of moods in this poem would be guilt and regret, he mentions more than once in the poem how nobody ever thanked his father, now thinking back, he realizes his father was showing love by making sure the house was warm for his family. An example, of imagery in this poem is when his discusses “the blue-black cold” (line 2) as well as describing, “his father …show more content…
The mood in this poem is happy and scared. Happy because he seems to be enjoying time with his father, yet he is also scared because he describes mentions that he “hung on like death” which also is an example of a simile. Because he was afraid of getting hurt due to his father dancing around making a mess of the kitchen which mom is not happy about, he describes his father making a lot of noise. An example of imagery is when he describes the boy describes his father’s battered knuckles and palms covered in dirt” (line 9, 10), which sounds like he works hard for a living or may have gotten into a fight. To me, this poem is not appealing due to the subject matter. It gives the image of violence and makes the reader feel bad for some of the characters. The literary techniques used in this poem discussed above helped the reader feel as if they were part of the story the poet was telling. Imagery helps the reader picture what is fathers hands looked