Analysis Of The Poem Home By Billy Collins

Billy Collins, born and raised in Manhattan, New York, is one of America’s most successful poets. Known for very famous poems such as “The Art of Drowning” and “Introduction to Poetry,” Billy Collins has succeeded in the department of English Literature for much of his life. With a bachelors degree from the College of Holy Cross and a Masters and PHD from the University of California, Riverside, Billy Collins went on to become a college English professor at Lehman College in the Bronx. He is and for a long time has been a strong advocate for encouraging young people to get into poetry and even created the program “Poetry 180” where he made a collection of 180 poems for schools to read one poem every school day. Setting him apart from the average poet, Collins received the utmost honor from the Library of Congress when he was declared the U.S. poet Laureate in 2001, serving for two years. Following the September 11th terror attacks, Collins wrote and read a poem entitled “The Names” that was dedicated to the victims. Unlike many poets who write extremely emotional poems, drawing from their traumatic backgrounds, Collins keeps it simple and rights about relatable, average, middle class lifestyle topics; both of his poems Introduction to Poetry and Embrace are emblematic of that.

While most of us think back to memories of our childhood and our relationships with our parents, we all have what he would call defining moments in our views of motherhood or fatherhood. It is clearly evident that both Theodore Roethke and Robert Hayden have much to say about the roles of fathers in their two poems as well. While the relationships with their fathers differ somewhat, both men are thinking back to a defining moment in their childhood and remembering it with a poem. "My Papa's Waltz" and "Those Winter Sundays" both give the reader a snapshot view of one defining moment in their childhood, and these moments speak about the way these children view their fathers. Told now years later, they understand even more about these

You selected a few different poems to interpret this week then my self. You have a marvelous post summarizing each peculiar one. I likewise read Nostalgia by Billy Collins this week. My conception of the author is he practically ridicules the diverse periods of time as they were portrayed. I enjoyed this poem considering the composer certainly drives the point home with this topic. An abundance of humanity complains about past generations although trends were not the greatest it's persistent rebalance of pros and cons about all aspects of life. I couldn't agree more with you that the theme of the poem demonstrates that humanity wishes regression to the way life once

It seems as though even when the narrator was in the warm temperature of the house, he still felt cold and reluctant to wake up.He was unappreciative and he speaks indifferently at his father. In this passage, the narrator is trying to show the extreme irony on purpose. Comparing how he treated his father to how much his father has done for him, shows a strong ironic feeling and helps the narrator give out the sense of sorrow when he followed the passage with his

One of the most powerful relationships someone ever forms is the connection that they have with their own father. “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden and “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke are both poems that brilliantly describe this powerful relationship between father and son. The feelings that the poets have toward the subject are found deep within the two poems often hidden behind how the character feels toward his own father. Even though these poems were published in different time periods, one feels the similarities and differences within the tone, form, or even the imagery of the poems.

In “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden, I believe that the metaphorical “gift” that the father bestows on his son is love. This is what the speaker of the poem realizes many years later, which can be told by the line “What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices?” When the speaker was a child, his view of love was not fully complete. In turn, he did not understand that by waking up early and making a fire to warm the house, his father was showing love and affection to the child. It can be seen that he did not know that his fathers was displaying affection by the lines, “and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house,” and “Speaking indifferently to him.”

The setting of the poem is told in the present, but it is about the past. The speaker describes it as very cold. This coldness is connected to the father and child relationship. There is some repetition in the poem. There is not just one cold winter Sunday, but the speaker alludes to there being many of those. Like in “Incident,” it almost seems like there are two speakers. The speaker is both the child who fears his or her father and the adult who is looking back at the father with love, respect, and understanding. There is a lot of maturity in the speaker now. We see this in how the speaker talks about the father. He or she is looking back at the labor the father put in and out if the home. The adult has realized that all of that was a form of love from the father. There is not much that the reader knows about the speaker, but I think that this helps the reader connect. Readers can see themselves in the speaker`s position. As children, we sometimes do not realize that the things our parents do are out of love until we are

The first Stanzas of the poem would talk about the action of the father how he would usually be seen as the first to get up from sleeping and leaving the house at the earliest morning when it still close to dark to chop woods for the house so the rest of the family can get warm by the fireplace this taking place during sunday which is known as a day of rest. Within the last two stanzas it would just describe the action of the child as they would get up in the chronic house possibly being a way of saying old house as they get dress and ready possibly for church the hint being the fact where everyone and the specially father would wake up early close to night probably preparing for church. I believe this poem is ironic in the term in which the child wouldn't really thank the father for getting their house warm and polishing their shoes, talking indifferently to him like if it something normal which is probably, but thinking about the fact that is sunday, a day of rest and worship and also a time for thanking those around you turn into a whole new joke as the father who always goes out early than the rest of the family every sunday and maybe everyday where it probably cold during those the would, alway chopping the wood and getting it

The poem starts with an extremely straightforward line that in any case builds up the subject and the tone of what will take after. The title has as of now recommended the peaceful chilly of "winter Sundays" and this first line adds to it the thought of the early morning. The speaker's dad is additionally acquainted which drives one with trust that he will figure midway in the lyric. The basic activity of the man getting up and dressing is honed as a picture by the utilization of the fascinating and striking descriptive word "blueblack," which depicts a murkiness that will soon be differentiated by the picture of flame. This starting may likewise be seen to recommend something of the father's character too, as he is up before sunrise, and is the one to go up against the chilly dimness of the home. Subsequent to building up the complex enthusiastic feeling of the recalled custom, the speaker offers a striking logical conversation starter that will end the ballad. Line 13 gives, with a practically arguing redundancy, the affirmation of lack of awareness with respect to the speaker. At that point Line 14 uncovers what it is that the speaker was uninformed about, what he has found thinking back on those mornings. It is the way of affection, all the more particularly the adoration for the father. The principal key descriptive word to offer knowledge into this is "severe." This implies basic, or unadorned, additionally expelled from the thoughts of joy. Every one of this we find in the depiction of the father who dismisses his own particular solace and goes up against the cool and agony of his hands, with a specific end goal to cultivate the solace of his family. The second modifier, "desolate," then adds to this the component of detachment, which the father encountered every morning as he assembled the

2. This poem is very concerned with the temperature. First it’s really cold. Then, the fires are lit and it’s warm. The temperature outside and inside the house reflects on the speaker’s relationship with his father. The temperature is a symbol of the speaker’s inner feelings and relationships. The weather is cold and the young speaker’s relationship with his father is

In each of the three poems, the dynamics of a relationship with a father are reflected upon by each poet. Each of the poems has a remarkably different feel to them. By using techniques such as mood, imagery and simile/metaphor, the poet is able to convey the emotions that are tied to their relationship with their father. In these examples, the relationships run a full gamut of emotions that each poet experienced. There is a display of lost opportunity mixed with regret in “Those Winter Sundays”, a fond recollection of times past in “My Father’s Hat” and memories of a harsh situation in “My Papa’s Waltz”.

The poem begins with imagery such as, “blueblack cold”, “cracked hands”, “fires blaze”, and “cold splintering,” gives the feeling of winter, which symbolizes the narrator’s coldness towards his father. This also gives insight to just how physical the father’s work was. The

The poem starts with the narrator making more of an observation than a description. The speaker sees a little black thing in the snow, and the little thing is crying out “weep! ‘weep!”. This use of imagery, calling—what the reader assumes is the chimney sweeper—a person a “thing”, really tells how insignificant this sweeper is, not even worthy of having a name. The little black thing is not only the chimney sweeper, but the reader can also confirm that the sweeper is a little boy. The image of the “black” boy—most likely black because he is covered in sooth—really makes the reader sympathize, and also picture the boy in the snow. The contrast between the boy and the snow really emphasizes the dark mood of the poem. Snow often symbolizes innocence and purity; this is especially true in this poem. A child always represents purity, but in

The speaker begins to portray an image in the readers mind, we question what is this little black thing until the second line confirming that it is a child covered in soot alone in the snow crying. This image seems to stick out since there a sharp distinction between the black soot covered boy and beautiful sparkling snow he is sitting in. That feeling of loneliness and abandonment is like how Jane Eyre felt as a child. Her mother dies when she is young, and is forced to live with her abusive Aunt. She is treated badly by her family. Continuing with Blake’s poem the child is asked where his parents are, the boy shows the hypocrisy by stating they are at church praying while he is left in the snow.

A father and son relationship is the most important part of a young boy’s life. It is important because fathers are supposed to teach their sons how to be a man. Many young boys look up to their fathers. But if there isn’t any nurturing involved between the father and son, how will they have a loving relationship? “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden and “My Papa Waltz” by Theodore Roethke show different types of relationships between a father and son. “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden shows how the speaker didn’t understand why his father couldn’t show affection towards him. When the speaker became older, he realized his father is showing love in a different way. “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke shows the relationship between the speaker and father spending time together before he goes to bed. Both poems establish different types of relationships between the father and son. However, one poem showed what a father and son relationship is supposed to look like. “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke establishes a more clear and focused purpose than “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden because the author portrays an ideal relationship between a father and son. The author uses elements of literature to make an effective purpose.