Critical Analysis Of The Poem Those Winter Sundays

At times we look back and regret certain moments in our lives. Most of the times it 's when you are lost and confused in life and try to figure out where it went wrong. Consistently pondering ourselves, on things we could have done different if only we had known what we know now. As we become older, our view of the world transform into a clear picture. Through experience, maturity, and life lessons we grow into older but wiser adults. During this transformation, we realize the hard work the ones who care for us actions convey.

In the poem “Those Winter Sundays”, time passes and the speaker eventually realizes that he took his father 's love for granted. The speaker now understands how challenging and lonely the job of parental love is. The

In “Those Winter Sundays” the poet uses these stanzas to support the underlying theme that could be mistaken as prose. Having these special techniques in the poem allows the reader to relate and connect with the speaker in the poem. In the next four lines, the author uses alliteration and a discord of noise that gives off a harshness to show the father 's pain and struggles of his life. In lines two through five the speaker describes his father life to the reader “and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze” (2-5). In the lines two and three, the maker uses brutal consonant sounds in the words “cold,” “cracked,” and “ached” to appeal to the reader 's sense of touch and sight. The reader reacts to the usage of the words feeling the father 's physical suffering through the powerful imagery “cracked hands that ached.” This leads to the reader to assume various things such as the man being worn out from his labor or possibly having arthritis which would lead to dry and sore hands. The audience also receive a sense of lowly economic status of the household due to the descriptive words such as “blueblack,” “labor,” and “weekday