Sonnets, Writing, and Discovery Thursday, January 14 Sonnets, Writing, and Discovery

Questions Comp Ntbk “Those Winter Sundays” Prompt Review Sonnet Packet Sonnet Project Student Writing Conferences

Comp Ntbk: Kurt Vonnegut “Word Progression”

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“Those Winter Sundays” Robert Hayden

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. No one ever thanked him.   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. What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices?

Title Those Winter Sundays Multiple Past Cold/Dark Ice/Snow Quiet/Sleep/Death Sundays Day of rest Religion/Christianity Father-Son Allusions

Stanza 1 Rhythm/meter Consonance Alliteration Enjambment Z, K, B too Word Choice Strategies too blueblack cold cracked hands…ached weekday weather banked fires blaze No one ever thanked him. Rhythm/meter Consonance Z, K, B Alliteration Enjambment

Stanza 2 cold splintering, breaking rooms…warm slowly…fearing Word Choice Strategies cold splintering, breaking rooms…warm slowly…fearing chronic angers Allusions Consonance Enjambment Free verse

Stanza 3 Juxtaposition Repetition Consonance Enjambment Word Choice Strategies speaking indifferently driven out cold polished shoes What did I know love’s austere and lonely offices Juxtaposition Repetition Consonance Enjambment

Conclusions Free verse Sonnet Father-Son relationships 14 lines Trochaic pentameter Iambic pentameter Other ___meter Turn at line 10 Father-Son relationships Sacrifice/Suffering “Love hurts”

Message In a parent/child relationship (especially a father- son), lack of understanding can create unmet emotional needs in children that can lead to guilt and regret that surfaces later in life, making forgiveness difficult and redemption improbable.

Connection: “My Papa’s Waltz,” Theodore Roethke The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. We romped until the pans Slid from the kitchen shelf; My mother's countenance Could not unfrown itself. The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckle; At every step you missed My right ear scraped a buckle. You beat time on my head With a palm caked hard by dirt, Then waltzed me off to bed Still clinging to your shirt.

Sonnets

Sonnet Packet “Sonnet,” Billy Collins Notes Rhyme Types Meaning Tone “Sonnet,” Billy Collins “Nuns Fret Not…,” William Wordsworth “Sonnet 116,” William Shakespeare “Whoso List to Hunt,” Thomas Wyatt “Sonnet 18,” William Shakespeare “One Day I Wrote Her,” Edmund Spenser

Sonnet Packet (2) Shakespeare’s Sonnets Sonnet Project While students working on own Sonnet Project, I will begin Student Writing Conferences. Shakespeare’s Sonnets Sonnet Project Find Sonnet for project Clean Copy Sonnet Type & Rhyme Rhythm & Meter Vocabulary Friday: Sonnet Packet pp. 6-7

For Friday Comp Ntbk: Hemingway Iceberg “___ Is About” Draft 2 Sonnet Packet pages 6-7 Sonnet Project for Tuesday (Clean Copy through Vocabulary)