Those Winter Sundays

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Did you ever have problems with your parents? Did they send you to your room for misbehaving? Majority of people would say “yes”, because that is what parents do. They are responsible for our actions, teaching us what is good or bad. But in the three poems that I want to discuss, their connection with their parents differs from normal family. While “Daddy”, “Those Winter Sundays” and “Still I Rise” explore the theme of relationships, they use different literacy and imagery devices to evoke emotions, backing it up by internal rhyme and rhyme scheme.
The poems use different devices for sound, but the most used in all three poems is internal rhyme. While “Daddy” and “Those Winter Sundays” prefer using internal rhyme over rhyme schemes, “Still …show more content…

Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, said, “We are never so vulnerable as when we love” (Marie, Michaela). Since parents and their children have a special connection, each one different from another, sometimes parents can be harsh and too protective, hurting the ones they love so much. While all three poems explore the theme of “Relationship”, relationships in “Those Winter Sundays”, differ from “Daddy”, and “Still I rise”. In “Those Winter Sundays”, the connection between protagonist and his father, occurs only when he has grown up. Towards the end of the poem reader sees how the protagonist starts to appreciate the actions of his father, because as a child he couldn’t understand the difficulty of “love’s austere and lonely offices?” (line 15). While in the poem “Daddy”, our protagonist feels like “a Jew” (line 35), and antagonist is “Panzer-man” (line 40). Undoubtedly, their relationship in the poem is of a girl who is being disregarded by her father, and has no comprehension of the reason why. However, the poem “Still I Rise”, the main character is rebellious towards his parents against their words “You may write me down in history” (line 1). Showing that regardless of their action he, “like air, I’ll rise” (line 24). And again, writers explore such themes, and the problems involved in

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