Poem The Structure Of The Poem Those Winter Sundays '

This is a unique poem on basis of the structure. It has a total of three stanzas and each of it consists of four lines. The poem does not have rhyme scheme and hence, it can be mistakenly taken to be a prose poem. Each line in the poem brings out various emotions expressed by the speaker and hence, the storyline is built up step by step.

The persona of the poem is a man. He is able to talk about his past, about his father and how he is currently appreciating the love of his father to the family as a parent. The speaker of the poem is able to talk about the hurdles his father went through as a parent.

From the heading of the poem, ‘Those Winter Sundays’, the word ‘those’ illustrates the time of the poem, indicating that the speaker is emphasizing on not only one Sunday but various Sundays whereby the events taking place were bit similar in a way or the other. All those events explained in the poem had happened when the author was a young person, a child. Still on the title of the poem, the words; ‘winter Sundays’ have been used symbolism to mean the relationship status of the child and his father, which was somehow at a distant. Winter season is believed to have snow, whereby the snow appears and cover the earth surface hence hiding all the beautiful scenery of the environment.

This evident on the basis that in the first line of the poem it speculates that, ‘Sundays too my father got up early’. This can be expressed in the Christion view, that the father is so responsible and loving on matters of family and that he can be seen as Jesus of the Bible, whereby He was crucified because of love of His people. On another view, the father is not so observant in the bible verses where by it was quote that God had rested in the seventh day which is the Sunday, but he still rose early and work on the resting