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Close Reading and Analysis of 'Those Winter Sundays' by Robert Hayden, Lecture notes of Music

A mini-lesson on Robert Hayden's poem 'Those Winter Sundays'. It includes instructions for close reading using three columns to identify imagery evoking touch, sight, and sound, as well as finding figurative and literal examples of warmth and cold, synesthesia, and specific images. Discussion and analysis topics include shifts from past to present, specific word choices, and the speaker's feelings towards his childhood home. The document also suggests imitation writing as a preparation method for the AP exam.

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R O B E R T H A Y D E N

Those Winter Sundays

Mini-lesson

— Synesthesia ¡ an implied metaphor in which an attribute associated with one of the physical senses is applied to a term associated with another sense ¡ Examples: ÷ “screaming pain” ÷ “cool whispers”

Close Reading

— Use three columns to identify the imagery evoking different senses—one color for touch, another for sight, and a third for sound. ¡ Identify the emotional effect of each image and annotate these emotional effects in the margin as specifically as possible. — Find figurative as well as literal examples of warmth and cold. — Find examples of synesthesia. — Identify images in which specificity creates a vivid sensory impression.

Discussion and Analysis

— Describe the speaker’s shifts from past to present, noting the way sensory imagery vivifies past experiences. — Discuss specific word choices and phrases: ¡ “blueblack cold” ¡ “cracked hands” ¡ “fire blaze” ¡ “cold splintering, breaking” — What are the “chronic angers of that house”? — Does the narrator express conflicted feelings about his childhood home? — Pay close attention to the closing lines of the poem and the speaker’s expression of regret as he looks back on his childhood. ¡ What are “love’s austere and lonely offices”?

Example

Saturdays , too, my sister slept in late and threw on yesterday’s sweatshirt in the chilly afternoon