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Those Winter Sundays
by Robert Hayden
BY ROBERT HAYDEN
Recapitulation- Those Winter Sundays
• The son/poet is an adult now looking back
onto what his father had done for him in
the past.
• He realizes now how he wasted his
childhood not recognizing the little things
that his father did for him.
• The poet recalls the way he treated his
father, so indifferently. Refers to the
coldness between the two.
FIGURES OF SPEECH OR
POETIC DEVICES
Literary/Poetic device is a technique a writer uses to
produce a special effect in their writing.
Poetic devices are tools that a poet can use to create
rhythm, enhance a poem's meaning, or intensify a
mood or feeling.
Examples: Alliteration, Personification, Similes,
Metaphors, etc.
THOSE WINTER SUNDAYS
POETIC DEVICES IN THE POEM ARE:
ALLITERATION
Note in Literature
PERSONIFICATION Notebook
ONOMATOPOEIA
REPETITION
BLANK VERSE
METAPHOR
IMAGERY
ALLITERATION
Alliteration is a poetic device in which a series of words, close
to each other, begin with the same consonant sound. It plays
a crucial role in poetry by lending a strong musical structure to
any verse.
William Shakespeare's work frequently featured
alliteration.
• for example, the “l” sound in lusty, leaves. The "b"
sound in beauty and bareness. In the last line, the "s" in
show, substance, still and sweet provide a soothing
rhythm:
• Sap checked with frost and lusty leaves quite gone,
Beauty o'er-snowed and bareness everywhere.
• Lease but their show; their substance still lives sweet.
ALLITERATION FROM THE POEM
THOSE WINTER SUNDAYS
(to be done in Literature Notebook)
• ‘weekday weather’ (stanza 1)
•‘banked fire blaze’ (stanza 1)
•‘were warm’ (stanza 2)
• ‘who had’ (stanza 3)
•‘love’s austere and lonely’
(stanza 3)
PERSONIFICATION
• Personification is a figure of speech/poetic
device in which a thing, an idea or an animal
is given human attributes/characteristics.
The non-human objects are portrayed in
such a way that we feel they have the ability
to act like human beings.
• Examples:
Look at my car. She is a beauty, isn’t she?
The wind whispered through dry grass.
The flowers danced in the gentle breeze.
PERSONIFICATION FROM THE POEM
THOSE WINTER SUNDAYS
(to be done in Literature Notebook)
• ‘chronic angers’ of that house’
(stanza 2)
Here the House is personified.
•‘love’s austere and lonely
offices’ (stanza 3)
Here Love & Offices are personified.
ONOMATOPOEIA
• Onomatopoeia refers to a word that mimics or
resembles the sound of the thing it describes.
For example, the words we use to describe the
noises that animals make are all
onomatopoetic, such as a dog’s “bark,” a cat’s
“meow,” or a cow’s “moo.”
More sounds: Splash, Crack, Buzz, Murmur, Boom,
Thud, Rustle, Chirp, Roar, Beep, Honk, etc.
There’s only one example from the Poem:
‘splintering’(stanza2)
Note the same in Literature Notebook
REPETITION
Repetition is a literary/poetic device that
repeats the same words or phrases a few
times to make an idea clearer and more
memorable.
Examples:
If you think you can do it, you can do it.
The students chanted to raise the spirits of their team during
the match, “We will win, we will win.”
There’s only one example from the Poem:
What did I know, What did I know!( stanza 3)
Earlier the poet was ignorant of what his father did. Later, he was regretful
and recalled his father’s duties & care.
IDENTIFY THE POETIC DEVICES
( LITERATURE NOTEBOOK- CLASSWORK)
Read the poem carefully and identify Alliteration, Personification,
Onomatopoeia & Repetition.
Tick Tock Little Clock
Tick tock little clock,
ticka ticka ticka toc!
How can I make you stop?
How can I tell if you are clumping your hands,
All around your clock face.
I just don’t understand,
You make sounds,
Like tring and buzz and cuckoo!
Tell me little clock.
Oh! Excuse me,
Achoooo!!
IDENTIFY THE POETIC DEVICES
ANSWERS
Alliteration- Tick - tock, you - your, can – clumping
The ‘T’ , ‘Y’ & ‘C’ sounds
Personification- I make you stop?
All around your clock face.
The word YOU gives the clock a character. So, it’s personified.
Onomatopoeia – tring, buzz, cuckoo
ticka ticka ticka toc!
The sounds the clock makes.
Repetition- How can I.....
How can I.......
The repetition of the phrase highlights the importance of the clock & the
poet’s observation of what the clock does.
