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