English 1022E Lecture Notes - Spondee, Simile, Blackboard
1 Dec 2012
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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 made banked fires blaze. 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, Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. The blueblack cold early early morning; blueblack sounds like bruising. Title winter connotes coldness, death; sundays are a holy day. (day of rest) Speaker a son father relationship; memory sequence. No one ever thanked him taken for granted. Use of consonance instead of soft c sound, hard k sound sense of things being hard. Imagery goes from (blueblack) cold to (banked) fires blaze. Warmth is occurring, but there is a kind of violence seen in the splintering, breaking diction.
