Due Thursday: Write a thesis for the poem, "Those Winter Sundays".
Address the prompt: How does the poet use literary devices/techniques to convey the speaker's complex attitude towards his father?
If you want to go further (suggested), create an outline for writing an essay about this poem.
Read the poem here: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/those-winter-sundays
Annotate for Facts, Interpretation, and Theme. Identify poetic and other literary devices Hayden uses to convey his complex attitude towards his father. Pay attention to noting shifts in tone, extended metaphor, symbolism, imagery, and other devices from the first stanza, to the second, to the third.
Read some ideas for analysis here: http://www.modernamericanpoetry.org/criticism/daniel-landau-robert-hayden%E2%80%99s-those-winter-sundays-child%E2%80%99s-memory
Due Monday: Read in Folger Library edition of "The Merchant of Venice" - "Reading Shakespeare's Language"; "The Merchant of Venice"; "An Introduction to This Text"; and "Characters in This Play". Take notes!
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