In this post you will be responding to the poem "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden (poem can be found HERE or on page 741 in your book.
1. Do some research about the author Robert Hayden. How might his background and upbringing impact his poetry? What connection can you make to this poem specifically?
2. This poem uses two NEW literary devices, sensory imagery and synesthesia. Give an example of each device directly from the text and explain how it is used in the poem.
3. Identify a vivid image. What does it make you imagine? Can you make a personal connection to the image or the poem overall?
4. What role does diction play in this poem? (*Think about the connotation and denotation of "hot" and "cold")
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Robert Hayden is a civil rights activist who used poetry to explain why equality between races is not only far but is ours by right
ReplyDeletethis poem uses imagery and metophor to set the seen and the poem it-self is told in first person point of view
ReplyDeleteI'd wake and hear the cold splintering,breaking./when the rooms were warm, he'd call,/and slowly I rise and dress...(Hayden L 6-8
ReplyDeletethe role that diction has in the poem is to explain all the activities that occur on a day to day bases in the house-hold.
ReplyDeleteEmollica Barry Period 1 - his background impact his poem because he dosent come from a good home and had a bad childhood. so he started to write about depression and things that happen in his life. A vivid image is when the man gets up in the morning and puts his clothes on and its very cold outside and he has alot of pain in his body. a connection i could make is when i have to get up early in the morning and get dressed for school and i really dont want to do that. since its SUnday in the poem he has to do the same work tomorrow that he does on the week day again. I have to do the same thing but its school. Diction plays the role by helping us see the image better than what we see by giving us descriptive word choice
ReplyDeleteAn example of synesthia is"he put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,/then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. An example of imagery is"I'd wake up and hear the cold splintering ,and breaking". The vivid image i imagine is"I'd wake up and hear the cold splintering,and breaking". The personal conection i made is when its storming outside and i hear the cold pushing,and breaking branches off trees,while im in my bed laying down.
ReplyDeleteRobert Hayden didn’t have a good childhood. His background could’ve gave him motivation and made him more determined to do good poetry. It also gave him more things to write about. He uses the sensory imagery when he describes in detail when he tells about him putting on his clothes. This makes me think about an old lonely man, who has no one he can turn to, their is no one that can help him and make him feel loved. IN this poem that are a lot of double meaning word. Some of the words that he is using is not what it actually mean its just to help represent something deeper than it.
ReplyDeleteRobert Hayden’s background and upbringing might have impacted his poetry because he’s been struggling since he was a child. He was bouncing between his biological parents and foster parents home which were right next to each other. That would be a hard this to go through as a kid because you’d have constant thought of you thinking ‘’ Why don’t they want me?’’ He might have spilled out his childhood feelings in his poetry in order to let them out and go on with his life. I can really relate to this poem. When he says ‘’No one ever thanks him’’ I can relate to this line because I do lots of things that seem to always go unnoticed or just pushed to the side like the first slice of bread.
ReplyDeleteOne way that Hayden uses s sensory imagery is when he says ‘’and put his clothes on in the blue black cold, /then with cracked hands…’’( Hayden L2-3) . This shows sensory imagery because it is uses the 5 senses to ‘’paint’’ a picture for the audience and it helps them to understand the poem a little bit more. This same quote is also an example of synesthesia because it not only does it uses the sight sense bye saying ‘’blue black cold’’ which would be the sense of touch but it uses ‘’ blue black cold’’ as a feeling element as well because come things can be so cold that it is actually blue black.
Diction plays a very important role in this poem because each of the more important words has a connotation and denotation such as the word blue. This can mean two things that this can mean. It can mean the color blue or it can also mean that someone is feeling down and out.
Alexuas Rogers
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12 November 2014
1.) The upbringing of Robert Hayden impacts in his poetry because it shows you his
struggles and describes his thoughts. For example by him being in foster care and his real
parents living right next to him is most likely the reason why he was so antisocial during his
childhood. Even though he went to college and became a famous poet in literature before he did
all that he grew up in foster in low income apartments. The connection I can make to this poem
specifically is that my mom does a lot for everybody even though she do not get everything I ask
for … it seems that nobody ever notices it. I can also relate because Hayden had a step dad and
he never had his real father in his life doing fatherly duties. This relates to me because I have a
step dad also.
2.) An example of sensory imagery is “clothes on the blue black cold”…(Hayden L 2). This
is an example of sensory imagery because you can envision what that looks like. Which is that he
was putting clothes on outside while turning black and blue from the cold weather. An example
of synesthesia in the poem is “with cracked hands that ached”..(Hayden L 3). This is an example
because it indicates that it is extremely cold outside and that is why his hands are cracking.
3.) A vivid image in the poem is “Sundays to my father got up early”..(Hayden L 1). It is vivid
because it gives you a clear picture of how that act actually looks like. No I can not make a
personal connection.
4.) The role that diction played in the poem is significant because for example hot literally
means and cold means cold. The diction in the poem is very direct and does not have a lot of
allegory.
Rashaud Colbert
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His background and upbringing may impact his poetry because it can cause people to relate to what he been through as a child. Some people were abused and saw violent relationships as a child. Sensory used in this poem is a since of hearing and seeing. He wakes up to seeing his foster parents abuse each other and yell at each other and it happened daily. But the father showed love differently by working hard for the family in which no one ever thanked him for it. He showed love to the son just by keeping the house warm and not really spending enough time with him like a father should. An example of that was when he said in the book that ''i'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking''.... A vivid image is fearing the chronic angers of the house. It makes you imagine the things that the child went through waking up to violence or abusive parents. I can connect with this because my mother uses different ways to show me love like buying me things i need like clothes and making sure i am well feed and educated. She goes to work to pay the bills in order for us to survive and to keep warm. The denotation of the word chronic is things that happens over and over again and the connotation of the word chronic is things that are in order like chronological order.
Sky Alexander
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1. Robert Hayden’s background and upbringing impacted his poem Those Winter Sundays because he based it on his foster dad who worked hard to provide for his family. Hayden read a lot of books when he was younger which made him be more aware of the world around him.
2. Hayden uses two new literary devices sensory imagery and synesthesia. An example of sensory imagery used in the poem is “and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, /then with cracked hands that ached...” (Hayden L 2-3). He uses synesthesia in line 7 “when the rooms were warm, he’d call.” This line shows synesthesia because it uses two senses which are hearing and feeling.
3. In Line 7-8 of the poem I feel that Hayden was vivid and I can imagine someone name being called and having to get up and get dressed early in the morning. I can personally relate to this every morning I wake for school and get out my warm spot in bed and be so frustrated and angry.
4. In this poem diction plays a huge part because the author constantly refers to feelings or a sound of something. The author uses words to state what he goes through and what he sees.
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QUESTION 1; The background of Robert Hayden might impact his poetry because he probably writes about his life to escape the problems he has. It may also help other people if they are going through the same thing . I can connect with this because I don’t think my father wants likes me or my sisers because why would he leave knowing he has children. So I can connect to how he feels .
QUESTION 2 ; An example of synthesia in this poem Is ‘’..then with my cracked hands that ached ..’’ (Hayden L 2-3) this helps me to lead that it is very cold outside . This quote also is an example of sensory imagery because I can feel the coldness in my hands that the author is trying to say . The reader uses sensory imagery to make the reader fell what he feels .
QUESTION 3 ; a vivid image I can picture is ‘’When the rooms were warm , he’d call, and slowly I would rise and dress ..‘’ (hayden l 7-8). This makes me picture how she gets up to go to him calling her . I can relate tho this quote because in the winter my mom calls me when the room are warm and I get up slowly and go towards her .
QUESTION 4 ; Diction does play a role in the poem because he uses words that have other meanings but uses those words because he wants his readers to think more closely on his words and that he really means something else . The author uses diction and connation in his poem .
Winoska Medina
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12 November 2014
Robert Hayden was a poet born on August 4, 1913. He who was raised in a village in Detroit called Paradise Valley. He grew up with adoptive parents who lived right next to his biological parents. Hayden grew up with continuous verbal and physical abuse in his home. He suffered depression and was also one who was usually isolated. Hayden’s background and upbringing impacted “Those Winter Sundays” because, it helps the audience understand why he was so detached and truly did not express his emotions. As, I read the poem I made a connection to Hayden’s life because, I am not great at expressing how I feel towards ones I love.
In Hayden’s poem he uses both sensory imagery and synesthesia. Hayden uses sensory imagery by saying, “I would rise and dress,/fearing the chronic angers of that house”(Hayden L8-9). Hayden uses this vivid image to show how he truly felt about his step-father and perhaps the reason as to why he has issues showing his affection for his step-father. Hayden fears his father although deep down inside his dead loves him. Hayden uses synesthesia by saying, “Speaking indifferently to him,/ who had driven out the cold”(Hayden L10-11). These lines represent synesthesia because, the sense of seeing something stimulated a sense of touch.
A vivid image in this poem is, “cracked hands that ached/from labor in the weekday”(Hayden L3-4). It makes me imagine the hands of a hard-working man. I can make a connection to this image because I also have a father who has hands that shows he has been a hard worker in his life.
Diction plays a huge role in this poem because, Hayden uses words that often has a connotation and denotation like the words, “hot”. The word “warm” has a denotation of heat but in the poem it also represents the time when his father would call him to rise.
Robert Hayden was brought up in a ghetto in Detroit by foster parents. He felt pretty lonely though because his biological mother is also fighting for his affection so in the midst of his biological mom and foster parents battling he felt alone. He used to get beat as a child and his child hood was scarring and stuck with him his whole life. This may have influenced his poetry because this followed him through his adult life and influenced some of his poetry. This poem expresses loneliness and love. In the poem the father got up and prepared everything before everyone woke up in the house but was under appreciated. He also talks about chronic anger which we were told was in his house as a child.
ReplyDeleteHe uses sensory image in the line, “… put his clothes on in the blueblack cold then with cracked hands that ached from labor” It is showing how the father’s hands looked because of the way he worked to provide for his family. It uses synesthesia by saying, “I’d wake to hear the cold splintering, breaking”. It is evoking two senses.
“With cracked hands that ached”, made me really picture the father’s hands strong but aching from hard work throughout the week. I can connect to that because that is the way my body feels after I have been hard at work from Monday to Sunday.
Diction played a big role in the poem. If he didn’t the deep words he used then we wouldn’t have got the poem. “Suddenly I would rise and dress”, if he would have just said I wake up and I get dress it wouldn’t flow with poem.
Carl Smith
Robert Hayden may have ben inspired from his background simply becuse he knows how it fels to grow up as a foster child and your parents being right next door and not wanting you. Thats his connection and most likley reason for writing this poem but this poem comments on the human experience on how some people struggle and when you have someone taking care of .You dont recognize what they are doing for you but u learn to value and appericiate them
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1. Robert Hayden’s childhood was rough, he was an outcast. He got abused by his parents and criticized by his peers. This might’ve affected his poetry, because the tone in the poem in melancholy and it’s reflective of his childhood. I can connect with this poem because my parents do a lot of things and I don’t thank them for every simple thing they do that has a big impact on my everyday life.
2. Hayden used sensory imagery and synesthesia in line 7 by saying “When the rooms were warm, he’d call…” by using the senses of feeling and sound. He felt the warm and heard his dad calling him.
3. “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/banked fires blaze.” (Hayden L 1-5) I can imagine someone getting up early in the morning on a Sunday when it’s still dark outside and its cold and getting stuff for the day.
4. Diction plays an important part, because it makes the reader get an really vivid description of what’s going on in the play. This helps the reader understand the play and what’s really going on, which is really important.
Teranian Dixon
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1.)Robert Hayden’s early life may have effected him and is the reason his poem talks about the struggle of his step father. His step father and mother were always arguing which made him afraid of his stepfather. I know people who have single parents that that have to work really hard to keep the house stable.
2.)“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.”(Hayden L 6-10). The synesthesia describes what he wakes and hear and how it feels (temperature). “The rooms were warm” is the sensory image.
3.)” Slowly I would rise and dress……”shows a vivid image of Hayden getting up and dress in fear to go see what his step father wants.
4.)Cold is used as a type of fearful feeling .
Miracle Johnson- Roberts
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12 November 2014
1.) Robert Hayden was born August 4, 2014. He was raised in Detroit, Michigan in a poor African American neighborhood called Paradise Falls. Hayden was brought up in an extremely poor and extremely abusive foster home. Evan though Hayden stayed in foster home, he still lived next door to his Biological parents. This brought conflict into his life. His parents and biological parents were always fighting. Also his foster parents were always fighting and arguing, and he got abused as a Child. During Hayden’s childhood he never participated in sports because of his vision, though he was still able to read. His childhood affected his literary works because he describes his feelings and his living condition growing in the foster home in his Literary works. A connection I can make personally to this poem is when I was about 7 my mom was in An abusive relationship, and I was always around to see the both of them fighting and sometime me seeing my mom beaten and abused. I was always fearful to be around them because I would always think I was next or the reason my mom was in pain. I say this cause when the Hayden say’s when I read this poem it brought me back to my days of fear and living in my house.
2.) Hayden’s uses sensory imagery and synesthesia when he says “I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he’d call”. The describes the fights we would hear between his foster mother and father and we can also feel his emotions in the lines. He feels scared and fearful of the fights that go in the walls of his foster family home.
3.) A vivid Image in this Poem is when Hayden says “he’d call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house,”. In this line of the story I as a reader can see and feel his emotions. He is very fearful of his foster father; he is scared of the reaction he might receive if he doesn’t obey his foster father. This relates me when I was younger, because I was also afraid of my mom’s boyfriend.
4.) Diction plays a role cause when Hayden uses “cold” he was no referring to the temperature of his house. He was referring to foster father’s emotions and actions.
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ReplyDelete1.) Robert Hayden grew up going back and forth between two houses; his parents lived in one and he was also raised in a foster home next door. He witnessed fights through most of his early years and he suffered many beatings. He grew up in a house with ongoing arguments and anger. This may have made his poetry more dark and emotional. His background can be connected to a line in this poem, “…fearing the chronic angers of that house” (Hayden line 9) He grew up in a house filled with anger and witnessed a lot of it; this line is a direct reference to that.
2.) An example of sensory imagery in this poem is “I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking” (Hayden line 6) This line is used to describe the fire making the cold and ice break or fade away. That same line is an example of synesthesia because coldness is a feeling, but it is heard splintering and breaking in the poem.
3.) “Speaking indifferently to him,/who had driven out the cold/and polished my good shoes as well.” (Hayden line 10-12) It makes me think of relationships where one isn’t getting appreciated enough. That has been the case for me many times before. I had a “friend” in the past; we were inseparable. She went to a different school one year. When she came back, she made a lot of new friends. I was discarded like a piece of trash. She has never once came up to me and thank me for all that I’ve done. I helped here with homework, class work, and other things; I was the only one who didn’t make fun of her when her back was turned. I didn’t do it at all for that matter. Still, no gratitude was shown and it never will.
4.) It provides double meanings. His father warmed up the house with a fire. When someone is mad, they are “hot.” His dad’s anger is probably breaking the “cold,” which is the peace.
Vanessa Quintana
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Robert Hayden grew up with his parents separated. Robert witnessed fights and suffered beatings. He lived in a house full anger. His background and upbringing impacted his poetry because he talks about his childhood and how he was treated and how he felt when those things were happening to him. Robert Hayden was also Baptist which made him write religious poetry. In the poem “Those Winter Sundays” he uses sensory imagery when he says “Then with cracked hands that ached/ from labor in the weekday weather made/banked fires blaze.”(Hayden L3-5) Robert Hayden used sensory imagery to describe how his father would get ready for work with cruel weather.Robert Hayden uses synesthesia in poem when he says "I'd wake and hear then cold splintering, breaking"(Hayden L6) He uses synesthesia to describe him awakening in his room freezing. That line also makes me think of a vivid image, because he is getting up and its freezing , splintering cold. Diction plays an important role in the poem because of the word cold. The denotation is the feeling cold. The connotation is loneliness. When someone is cold they are usually Lonely and don't open up to people. Robert Hayden uses cold to describe his father.
MikaLyn Alexander
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1.) Robert Hayden background impacted his poetry because he used his experiences to express himself in his poetry. The connection that I have to this poem is that we both have a parent that work hard to take care of us but doesn’t really get recognized.
2.) “I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking./ When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and slowly I would rise and dress,/ who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well.” (Hayden L-6/10) This shows imagery because I can image a boy getting up, getting dress and going down stairs to see his shoes were polished. “And put his clothes on in the blue black cold,/ then with cracked hands.” (Hayden L 2-3) This shows synesthesia because this is and sense of impression that’s relating to one’s body part.
3.) This makes me imagine a young boy that now looks back on his child hood and appreciate his father and the fatherly love that he gives. The personal connection that I have to this poem is that I should appreciate the person that gives me unconditional love instead of waiting until I’m older.
4. Diction plays a big role in this poem because it gives the word more meaning than what it really means. For example "Cold" which was used in both of the too ways (Temperature & Affection)
The upbringing of Robert Hayden impacted the format of the poem because his childhood was dark. His parents separated before he was born resulting as him being sent to a foster home .As a child Robert Hayden was traumatized by the abusive nature of his foster home.In his early childhood Hayes suffered from both physical and verbal abuse.As a result of the abuse Hayes suffered from depression .Hayden's childhood impacted the poem because he speaks of the abuse in the poem . In the poem Hayden says''And slowly i rise and dress,fearing the chronic angers of that house .'' (Hayden L 8-9) The ''chronic angers'' of the house Hayden used chronic to represent the recurring abuse of his house. .Hayden uses synesthesia by describing what it felt like to be in his house .’’I’d wake and hear the cold splintering,breaking when the rooms were warm’’.(Hayden L 6-7) .This is an example of synesthesia as well as sensory imagery because Hayden is trying to convey to us what he felt as he was waking .When i read the poem i imagine waking up before turning on the lights so its dark and chilly
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1) Robert Hayden's background and upbringings impacted his poetry by him adding his personal experiences into his poetry. Some of his main experiences is that he was isolated from his parenrs and his froends, and he was half-blind.
2) "Chronic angers...", ( Hayden, L 9) is a example of Synesthesia.
Also, "Cracked hands that ached...". (Hayden, L 3) is a example of sensory imagery because it tells how the "cracked hands" feel, and what the "cracked hands" look like. These examples are used verbally in the poem.
3) In the poem, "...Put his clothes on in the blue black cold..." is a vivid image. It makes me imagine a man putting his clothes on in very cold to freezing weather. No, I cannot make a personal connection to this image because I cannot imagine myself doing this in cold weather.
4) Diction plays a very important role in this poem because it describes some key words, and it uses both connitations and denotations of the key words inside of the poem.
Lonzhane' Coleman
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1.)The author had a really hard up bringing he was in a foster home for his childhood and the home was always violent and angry so he had a mind set that he knew nothing about what people went through and why they acted the way they did this is also shown in his poem,"what did i know what did i know of loves austere and lonely offices?"
2.) Sensory imagery- a descrption using more than one sence of the 5 "id wake and hear the cold splintering breaking when the rooms were warm "
3.) The image is a cold house with a hardworking father who is always upset but pushes threw his sunday mornings to do the right thing this makes a personal connection because i have a hard working parent that works hard and sometimes gets frustrated but still finds a way to push threw her off days with the family
4.) The author uses cold as a actual feeling but also as the vibe that he feels in the house hold
Betty Lee
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Robert Hayden background and upbringing impact his poetry is by his parents had got spread from each other and he had been spending his childhood life in foster care.Robert Hayden had lot of conflict in is life his parents This poem is about his parents "I'd wake and hear the cold splitting, breaking." (Hayden L 6)
Sensory imagery- is ... "put his clothes on in the blue black cold,//then with cracked hands…’’( Hayden L2-3)
Is shows the sense of touch and looking because its the thought of paint
It plays a important part in this poem because he is giving you a key word that telling how hi life is.The where it says splitting breaking its telling you that he has lot of emotions in his life.
Raquel Sanchez
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1.Robert Hayden's background and upbringing puts an impact on his poetry because he's expressing his emotions and is trying to get people to relate to what he went through in his childhood. Robert Hayden had a very dysfunctional family and he was given away to foster parents due to poor vision, and his biological parents were his neighbors. Therefore his poems were about depression, the fights, the beatings, and about his parents and how he was traumatized as a young boy.
2. This poem uses sensory imagery because in the line "and put his clothes on in the blue black cold".... It tells how he has to get up in the morning and work in the cold . This poem uses synesthesia in the line "then with cracked hands that ached" (Hayden) because it tells that the weather was so cold, that his hands were cracking. This creates a picture and I can see and hear it.
3.A vivid image in this poem is "Cracked Hands That Ached".... I imagine a hard working father out working in the cold without gloves to provide for his family. My connection is my dad working hard on the road to put money on anything we want and need.
4. Diction plays a role in the poem because he uses connotations of words instead of using the denotation word. He wants the reader to relate and see where he's coming from.
Andrea Ruvalcaba
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1. Robert Hayden was born in Detroit Michigan his parents separated before he was born he was taken into foster home family by his neighbors. He experienced a traumatic childhood and even went through depression. Robert Hayden's background impacted his poetry because it was a way for him to express his feelings about what he went through and also make what he went through into a poetic art to share with others. I can relate to Robert Hayden's poem "Those Winter Sundays" because my dad isn't the best at showing his emotions and because of that he doesn't express his love for us in a clear way. He shows he loves us by working two jobs and trying to get our family moving forward he gives us everything we need and makes sure we are on the path for success. Although he doesn't physically show he loves us by hugging us or kissing us or even telling us he does we know my dad loves us in his own way and that the reason he is so tough is because that is the way his father was with him. That is exactly why i can really relate to the poem "Those Winter Sundays".
2. In the poem Those Weather Sundays the quote "Then with cracked hands that ached/from labor in the weekday weather made/banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him."(S 3,4,5) shows sensory imagery because you can see a mans cracked hands form all the work he has done and you can also feel his rough cracked hands. We can directly picture a mans cracked tired hands after a long day of work. The quote "I'd wake and hear the cold splintering,breaking./When the rooms were warm, he'd call."(S 6,7) is an example of synesthesia because it is using the sense of hearing and also touch. He can hear the cold splintering breaking and when he would call but you can feel/touch something cold and splinters and something breaking.
3. "Then with cracked hands that ached/from labor in the weekday weather made..."(S 3,4) This quote forms a vivid picture of some older mans hands they are rough and scratchy and you can tell the man has been working hard. I can imagine a man working hours and hours and by the time he gets home he is rubbing on his hands because they hurt. I can relate to this image because that is the way my dads hands are. He has big beat up hands that are noticeable he has been working for a long time. I can relate to the poem overall because of my dad he works two jobs we rarely see him and when we do he is tired and his hands and feet hurt also about him not showing love in the most clear way.
4. Diction plays a major part in this poem because the words chosen make a vivid image in your head about what the poem is talking about also because it uses words in multiple ways. For example cold is used as the actual temperature being cold and the other way it is used is describing someones feelings as in lacking affection.