POWER POINT PRESENTATION
BYPARVATHY P
ENGLISH16514352019
-ROBERT
HAYDEN
THOSE WINTER
SUNDAYS
ROBERT HAYDEN (1913-80)
Robert Hayden is an American poet,
essayist and educator. His works often
address the plight of African Americans.
He has written political poetry, including
a sequence on the Vietnam war.
Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blue black
cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labour in the weekday weather made
Banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked
him.
Those Winter Sundays
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?
This is a poem about a poor father who is
being fondly remembered by his grown-up son
Even on winter Sundays, the loving father
woke up early in the morning and kindled the fire
with his cracked hands that ached, when
everybody was shivering in the blue-black cold.
He is a lonely figure who makes the cold
atmosphere prevailing in the house warm with
his love’s austere offices.
Parental love and affection are expressed
through simple and gentle acts of care and
kindness such as kindling the fire and polishing
the shoes without expecting others to thank him or
love him. Even the son was thankless to him which
he realized later and felt regret for that.
WORDS AND ITS MEANINGS
Blaze : burn with
strong flame
Splintering : breaking
into small pieces
Indifferently : having no
interest in
Austere : sternness
POETIC DEVICES
Poetic image is a sensuous
picture in words. It is charged
with human motions. The most
commonly used images are :
1. Visual images
2. Auditory images
3. Tactile images
Image
Visual Image
What you see.
Eg:
cracked hands
banked fires blaze
blueblack cold
Auditory image
What you hear.
Eg:
cold splintering, breaking
chronic anger
blueblack cold
Tactile Image
What you touch and feel
Eg:
warm rooms
polishing shoes
THEME OF THE POEM
“Love doesn’t always appear
in a friendly and warm form.”
THANK YOU…….