Unhealthys September Rhyme Scheme

In order to put an image in our mind of how harsh this time was the author of this poem uses imagery. He pays attention to the detail and writes “Through the lone night until the last snow-flake/has dropped from heaven upon the earth’s white breast”(McKay 9-10). This gives us a more detailed description of their struggle.

The fifth line says, “maybe for scaring us with unexpected rage.” This implies the father may have had a drinking problem since alcoholics tend to display violent behavior unexpectedly while under the influence. The poet extends the idea of a hot-tempered alcoholic in lines six and seven which state, “or making us nervous (6) because there never seemed to be any rage there at all (7).” This is say that the violent outbursts occurred on a regular basis and even though the father was not violent at certain moments the child knew it was the calm before the storm. The idea that this happened regularly further emphasizes that the father had an addiction to alcohol and his rage was the outcome of it; all of which, portray horrendous events a child lived through in their youth as a result of an unfit father.

To start off the analysis, the setting of the entire poem is significant. Though the poem takes place in a house, the atmosphere the house is set in is also important. The month is September which is a month of fall which can be seen as a symbol for decline. It definitely insinuates that the poem is leading towards death. Line 1 has “September rain falls on the house” which gives the feeling of a dark and cold night with a storm on top of that. To further develop that, Bishop gives us the failing light in line 2 to also give us an idea of the grandmother’s struggle. Bishop uses the cyclical theme of changing seasons to show the unending nature of what is transpiring within the

The tone of the speaker was very sad, cold and lonely for misses his father. Evidence that support that he misses his father can be found in the poem. The second and the third stanza reflects how he feels about the weather and I think he meant the fall season in which he uses a cold tone “the garden is bare now. The ground is cold, brown and old”, he clearly just mentioning the negative sounding around fall. A lonely tone also found in the last few stanzas, when he mentioned that his food is almost cooked “White rice steaming, almost done. Sweet green peas fried in onions. Shrimp braised in sesame oil and garlic. And my own loneliness. What more could I, a young man, want.”. The part where he said, “And my own

From the beginning of the poem, the reader can tell that the tone of the poem is consistent. There is no shift in tone, it’s simply sad and bitter. The father notices the innocence of his daughter and knows that there is bad luck that is coming for her future. The reader is able to see the father’s concern throughout the poem when he says that the “night’s slow poison” will change her. He knows that this issue cannot be changed, so he is doing what he can to avoid it becoming a bigger dilemma. By the end of the poem, it’s easy to notice that the father has become angry about the situation that is brought upon him. In the last two lines, the father decides that he doesn’t want to have children because of all the things he sees in their future, nothing but pain and suffering. His decision is expressed in the way he says “These speculations sour in the sun. I have

In the poem the speaker tells us about how his father woke up early on Sundays and warmed the house so his family can wake up comfortably. We are also told that as he would dress up and head down stairs he feared ¨the chronic angers of that house¨, which can be some sort of quarrel between his father and his mother in the house. This can also lead the reader to believe that the father may have had been a hard dad to deal with. However the father would polish his son's shoes with his cracked hands that ached. This shows the love that the father had for his son and now that the son has grown he realizes what his father did for him. The sons morals and feelings have changed him because as he has grown to become a man he has learned the true meaning of love is being there for one's family and not expecting it to be more than what it is. Consequently this teaches him a lesson on how much his father loved him and how much he regrets not telling him thank

The tone of the poem changes as the poem progresses. The poem begins with energetic language like “full of heroic tales” and “by a mere swing to his shoulder”. The composer also uses hyperboles like “My father began as a god” and “lifted me to heaven”. The use of this positive language indicates to the responder that the composer is longing for those days – he is nostalgic. It also highlights the perspective of a typical child. The language used in the middle of the poem is highly critical of his father: “A foolish small old man”. This highlights the perspective of a typical teenager and signifies that they have generally conflicting views. The language used in the last section of the poem is more loving and emotional than the rest: “...revealing virtues such as honesty, generosity, integrity”. This draws attention to a mature adult’s perspective.

In the poem, I get a sense that there is no bond, like my father and I have which leads to confusion in the narrator's life. For instance, in line eight when he says, "I would slowly rise and dress,/ fearing the chronic angers of the house"(8-9), this gives me a strong sense of sadness, for him because I feel that he is greatly deprived of what every child should have a good role model as a father, and someone to look up to. “Speaking Indifferently to him, / who had driven out the cold”(10-11) is saying that they really did not know how to communicate with each other. I feel that the boy will regret not having and knowing what it is that makes you who you are, and may never get a chance to have and hold a special bond with his father and having a relationship with a person that can not be held with anyone else. This would bring an enormous amount of sadness to my life had I not had my Dad there to guide and protect me, when I could have used tremendous support and security.

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

The children are unnoticed by others and the mother is the only one that is protecting them. This poem shows the hard times that the mother must face because her children have died. However the mother is coping with them while still protecting her children after they have died, This is the mother's way of coping because she is not yet ready to let go of her children and still wants to care for them. This poem shows this through nature by portraying the mother as a bird who is protecting her nest. Also the poem uses nature by describing the harsh times as a winter wind that has caused harm to the mother and her children.

The seasons in the poem also can be seen as symbols of time passing in her life. Saying that in the height of her life she was much in love and knew what love was she says this all with four words “summer sang in me.” And as her life is in decline her lovers left her, this can be told by using “winter” as a symbol because it is the season of death and decline from life and the birds left the tree in winter. The “birds” can be seen as a literal symbol of the lovers that have left her or flown away or it can have the deeper meaning that in the last stages of our life all of our memories leave us tittering to our selves.

In the first stanza the reader is introduced to the two characters in the poem. The reader is also made aware of the time of the year and day. The first stanza reveals a lot of information. It tells the reader who, when, and where. It also appeals to the sense of touch and sight when it describes the father's hands and also when he "puts his clothes on in the blueblack cold." One could almost feel the "cold" and see the "cracked hands."

In Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays,” the speaker is a man who is maturing in his perception of love. He is realizing that love can be shown in many strange ways, and that though he never seemed to show it, his father truly did love him. Every morning, his father would wake up in the cold, early morning, to bank the fire and heat the house, and he would not wake the rest of the house until the rooms were warm. The main character had a fear of his father because of his temper, however he did not understand that his father was not always angry with him, he was just tired. His father worked hard every day and never got much recognition. Now that the main character has matured, he can look back and see that everything his father did for the

Hayden utilizes diction to set a dark and solemn tone throughout the poem. Like the various examples of imagery, there is also a strong use of underlying symbolism. In the first stanza, the words “cold” (1. 2) and “fires blaze” (1. 5) are used, which introduces a conflict. This is emphasized in the second stanza when the word “cold” (2. 1) is used again, later followed by the word “warm” (2. 2). In the last stanza, the father eventually “had driven out the cold” (3. 2). Yet the father had not ridden the house of the cold air until the end of the poem, which symbolizes how it took his son several years later to recognize the behaviors in which his father conveyed his love for him.

It is easy to read and understand the surface meaning, but actually, far more profound than that. The first symbol can be seen in the title “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” as a recalled memory in a long time ago of an older man. However, the most significant symbol is the wood. Instinctively, the wood is wild and free, but this one belongs to someone that the author knows living faraway. It is described to be “lovely, dark and deep”, seductive enough for the man to be lured. It is a peaceful and attractive place in “The darkest evening of the year”, the “downy flake” is quietly falling and covering “his woods”. If the man decides to trespass and take a long rest in the woods, he may be lost and engulfed by the snow blanket, which leads to the freeze and death. Therefore, the woods is the temptation in life, if we cannot get out of it, it will destroy us. On the other hand, it also represents the life of the man. Because everything is covered by snow, it can be referred that context was in the winter – the final season of a cycle – the upcoming end of the human’s life and the “frozen lake” – the beginning of the sear end of his life. In this case, the poem shows the man’s readiness to die because he can hardly bear any tiredness and age. Another symbol is the “horse”, it was personalized to be able to “think”, “give” and “ask”. In spite of being an animal, it is the only link between the man and the