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WELCOME. PREPARED & PRESENTED **Pooja.R.S** English Optional Reg No.13389004 M.I.T.E Chavarode. The Poem. THOSE WINTER SUNDAYS. By -Robert Hayden. About the Author. Name:Robert Hayden Born:1913,August-4 Nationality:America Occupation:Poet,Essayist,Educator - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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PREPARED &
PRESENTED**Pooja.R.S**
English OptionalReg No.13389004M.I.T.E Chavarode
The Poem
THOSE WINTER SUNDAYS
By
-Robert
Hayden
About the Author
• Name:Robert Hayden
• Born:1913,August-4
• Nationality:America
• Occupation:Poet,Essayist,Educator
• Major works:The Whipping,Middle Passage,Runagate,Those winder sundays
• Died:1980,February-25
Those Winter Sundays
Robert Hayden, 1913 - 1980 Sundays too my father got up early
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. No one ever thanked him.
I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he’d call,
and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house,
Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices?
GLOSSARY REFERENCE
Blueblack cold-Extreme cold
Blaze-Brightly
Banked-Burning slowly without fire
SCAFFOLDING QUESTIONS1.Who is the speaker in the poem ?
2.What does the phrase “Sundays too” mean ?
3.How is “Sunday” contrasted with “weekday” ?
4.Pick out the lines that show that the son
loves his father ?
5.Does the Poet regret his attitude as boy to
father now ?
Literary Activity
• The poem contrasts “the cold climate of the winter season” and “the warmth of the fire kindled by the father”. Pickout the lines in the poem which suggests the contrasts.
Activity• Poetic image is a sensuous picture in words.
e.g: “Blueblack cold in this poem appeal to our sense of sight.The expression “cold splintering” appeals to our sense of hearing.The expression “warm rooms” appeals to our sense of touch.
In this way find out and classify other images into visual, auditory and tactile images.
Home Assignment• Collect different poems on the
parent-child relationship.
Thank you
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