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Alliteration In Those Winter Sundays

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In Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays”, the subject matter is touching on the loneliness of being a loving father or parent. It is about a child realizing how hard their father works and labors to keep them cared for and warm, and how little that father is acknowledged, appreciated, and thanked for his work. The language used by Robert Hayden in his poem is appropriate to the subject matter. It is appropriate because it conveys the tone of loneliness. Some of the poetic devices used in “Those Winter Sundays” are alliteration, assonance, and metaphors. The alliteration can be seen in line 2 and 3 with the letter c in “clothes”, “cold”, and “cracking”. In line four, the letter w is used in “weekday weather”, in line 5 the letter b
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