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FATHIMA MEMORIAL

TRAINING COLLEGEPALLIMUKKU, KOLLAM, KERALA - 691010

POWER POINT PRESENTATION

by,

Lekshmi GS

English

13352014

THOSE WINTER SUNDAYS

Sundays too my father got up early

and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,

then with cracked hands that ached

from labour in the weekday weather made

banked lines blaze. No one ever thanked him.

PROFILE ROBERT HAYDEN

• Born - Asa Bundy Sheffey4 August 1913Detroit, Michigan, USA

• Died - 25 February 1980 (aged 66) Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

• Occupation - Poet, essayist • Notable works - Heart Shape in the Dust, A

Ballad of Remembrance • Notable awards - Consultant in Poetry to the

Library of Congress (US Poet Laureate), 1976-78

POETIC DEVICESVISUAL IMAGES• CRACKED HANDS• BANKED FIRES BLAZE• BLUEBLACK COLD

AUDITORY IMAGES• COLD SPLINTRTING, BREAKING• CHRONIC ANGERS• SPEAKING INDIFFERENTLY

TACTILE IMAGES• THE COLD SPLINTERING• WARM ROOMS• POLISHING SHOES

METAPHOR

METAPHOR - A metaphor asserts that one thingis something that it literally is not. A metaphor is afigure of speech. Some examples of metaphors areas follows in the poem :-• I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.

(Comparison of the cold to a solid object that can splinter and break )

ALLITERATION

ALLITERATION IS THE OCCURRENCE OF THE SAME

LETTER OR SOUND AT THE BEGINNING OF ADJACENT

OR CLOSELY CONNECTED WORDS. SOME EXAMPLES

OF ALLITERATION IN THE POEM ARE AS FOLLOWS :-

• ‘’banked”• “blaze”

SCAFFOLDING QUESTIONS

• WHO IS THE SPEAKER IN THE POEM ?

ANS : POET HIMSELF IS THE SPEAKER IN THE POEM.

• HOW IS ‘SUNDAY’ CONTRASTED WITH ‘WEEKDAY’?

ANS : SUNDAY WHICH IS SUPPOSED

TO BE A DAY OF REST IS CONSTRASTED HERE WITH WEEKDAY WITH HARD AND TIRELESS LABOUR

ASSIGNMENT

• COLLECT DIFFERENT POEMS ON THE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP.

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