"Those winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden

Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Poem Title:_Those winter Sundays by Robert Hayden. Theme: Ingratitude. This is evidenced by a phrase in the last sentence of the leading paragraph stating that nobody was thankful about the father’s efforts. Speaker: The son of the character branded “father” in the poem. This is because he calls him “my father” and considered a son because he talks of polishing shoes. Narrative & Lyrical: Explained in past tense of a story that happened. The father would get up early on cold Sundays to make the banked fires blaze. Tone: Awful sympathy Diction (denotation & connotation): Blueback cold, cracked hands, cold splintering, breaking. . Imagery & Image patterns: chronic angers, Figures of Speech (metaphor, simile, & hyperbole): Fearing the chronic angers of that house, Breaking and splintering cold. Symbol: ached and cracked hands represents struggle in hardships, fire blazes symbolizes warmth. PoemTitle:_The mother by Gwendolyn Brooks. Theme: Child abortion. Speaker: The aborting woman. Narrative & Lyrical: There is a narration of abortions that had taken place and afterwards regrets. The lyrical rhythm include, air and hair as well as the singers and workers. Tone: irreversible regrets Diction (denotation & connotation): The damp small pulps factually mean would the wet small and fleshy tissues, yet in deeper it would mean immature or useless. Imagery & Image patterns: The m...