Those winter sundays
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- Created on: 31-05-19 14:37
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- Those Winter Sundays
- Tone
- apologetic, regretful, tender, guilty
- confessional, sorry for not expressing gratitude, for treating his father indifferently
- Purpose
- write about relationships indirectly through images and metaphors
- Content
- narrator describes relationship with father, how he didn't appreciate his father's sacrifices until now
- reflecting back to when he was a child
- speaker notes that although he did benefit from his father's work he did not show gratitude
- relationship faltered because of division created by misunderstanding, was never repaired
- Analysis
- Stanza one
- 'sundays too'- level of sacrifice and effort, gets up on day of rest
- 'cracked hands'- lingering effects of prior work
- intimate, conversational style
- 'fires blaze'- passion/ strong feelings. he starts a fire but he doesn't receive the same care back. he had to put his clothes on in the 'blueblack cold'
- 'no one ever thanked him'- impassioned case against child who let such actions go without thanks. short, concise, emphasis, sudden stop in rhythm
- Stanza two
- father's work ethic- speaker not awake when he begins
- 'when the rooms were warm'- shows level of care, he didn't 'wake' the child until the room lost its chill
- 'cold splintering, breaking'- violent
- 'fearing the chronic angers..' - fear in living situation either house is falling apart or tension between father and child
- Stanza three
- speaker applies wisdom and growth to situation to conclude that as a child, he simply had not understood
- son can see in retrospect the quiet love expressed by his father, but too late
- wasted youth, relationship that was never healed despite the love present
- Stanza one
- Tone
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