READ 4 STORIES THAT ARE WRITTEN BY 4 DIFFERNT STUDENTS AND GIVE… READ 4 STORIES THAT ARE WRITTEN BY 4 DIFFERNT STUDENTS AND GIVE FEEDBACK ABOUT THERE, constructive language, give your peer feedback on the following: ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS FOR EACH STORY!!! OR NO RATE How well has the writer constructed his/her/their Thesis Statement?How well has the writer used evidence from the poem?How well has the writer explained how their examples support the thesis statement?Overall feedbackYou can also give comments on the overall quality of the paragraph. Please remember: Some of the things we like to have feedback on are: language, grammar, word choice, integration of quotes, overall clarity, quality of ideas GIVE AT LEAST A PARAGRAPH OF FEEDBACK FOR EACH STORY THANK YOU STORY NUMBER 1: There is much about parenthood that we, as children overlook. We often do not recognize the hardships our parental figures face to maintain our wellbeing. In the poem “Those Winter Sunday’s”, Robert Hayden describes his regret of not fully appreciating his father for the hard work he had put into making their home comfortable using powerful imagery. The first instance of imagery evident in this poem is the depiction of the cold environment in which the author had grown up in. Hayden describes how his father would get up every day in the piercing cold of the morning. He writes, “put his clothes on in the blueblack cold” (line 2). This quote represents the harsh and bitter temperatures that his father had to face during his waking hours, which represents his hard working and caring nature despite this image of the enemy which is the cold. Another crucial visualization comes from when Hayden describes himself waking up to his fathers’ call, being unaware of what the cold must have felt like to his father in the morning. There is a transitional period between when the father wakes up and his child wakes up due to the use of consonance with words that create images of cold to warm. For instance, Hayden describes this transition here: “I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he’d call” (lines 6&7). He describes the remnants of his father’s hard work with the splintering and breaking of supposedly wood in a fire, and then that crackling turns into the warmth that surrounds the author as he woke up. This example of imagery is impactful in showing the transition between temperatures as well as the hard-working tone to a warmer, calmer one. The last instance in which Hayden uses to illustrate the theme of his poem is when he describes love and his regret of not loving and appreciating his father enough. He writes that had felt devastated and ignorant as a child in the face of “love’s austere and lonely offices” (line 14). This is one of the most powerful lines within this poem because it sums up the feeling of loneliness, the cold, and isolation Hayden had felt in his earlier days with his father. He paints a picture of love being strict and laborious in nature, seeing that his father had loved him so much as to wake up every day to ensure his warmth and safety. He describes love not in the warm and fuzzy way, but in the hard, frustrating, and cold way that we often are not used to when talking about love. Hayden does a wonderful job in using imagery to describe the theme of the poem, whether that’s by depicting harsh and cold mornings, the change in scenery from cold to warm, and the demanding nature of love that he had taken for granted. Through this poem, the author expresses his regret for the love his father had shown him through shielding him with warmth in a house in which he could flourish, and using carefully impactful descriptions, the audience feels this story as he writes it. STORY NUMBER 2: When growing up, you start to understand how much power and strength it takes to raise children. In his poem “Those Winter Nights”, Robert Hayden expresses the regret he feels towards not appreciating his father enough by using consonances, imagery and metonymies. Throughout the whole poem the author continuously uses the same sound to really push the emphasis on the regret that he is feeling. When reading the same sound repeatedly, you tend to start annunciating the sound a little bit more each time, which makes you sound angrier, and I think that’s what Hayden was going for. The line “and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached” holds a lot of anger and pity for what his father had to go through every morning. An aggressive sounding letter like “K” is a perfect way to get the point across without blatantly saying it. In the entire second stanza, it paints a picture heartfelt enough to ache any heart. Hayden writes that his father would go out into the “blueblack cold” (line 2) early in the morning and would only return when he was done cutting enough wood to heat up the house for his children. “I’d wake up and hear the cold splintering, breaking” wrote Hayden about hearing his father outside each morning cutting wood, “when the rooms were warm, he’d call”. Finally, Hayden uses the words “chronic angers” when referring to the anger and frustration of his parents for not helping. Earlier in the poem, Hayden states that “no one ever thanked” his father for the hard work he did each day, but as a child, you wouldn’t expect to have to do work around the house. You rely on your parents for everything as young children are supposed to. Even though in the moment as a child, Hayden saw his father working and did nothing to help, by using the intense repeating “k” sounds, intense imagery and frustrating metonymy, Hayden properly shows his regrets in the way he treated the situation in the past. STORY NUMBER 3: Death is feared amongst many but once one hits a certain age and dark point in life, there are moments where one might succumb to the idea of death. In the poem “Do not go Gentle into that Good Night”, the author, Dylan Thomas uses metaphors, puns, and paradoxes in order to motivate his father to fight against death. Thomas almost never directly mentions the state of death throughout his poem and instead uses words that sound like the simple act of going to sleep. More specifically, he rotates through “dying of the light” (lines 3, 9, 15, 19) and “good night” (lines 1, 6, 12) mostly at the end of each verse. These gentle wordings to describe sleep are used instead of the word “death” in order to ease his fathers’ acceptance of death whilst motivating him to fight against it. Thomas also refers to the type of men who have succumbed to their over acceptance of death by using a pun. He states, “Grave men near death, who see with blinding sight” (line 10) and uses the word “grave” to create relation to the theme of death and the men he describes. The word “grave” can be interpreted in two ways. One can mean the burial of a dead body, which stays on theme with the topic of death, and the other can suggest a serious and stoic attitude. Finally, similar to the metaphors, Thomas carefully places the contradicting words to ease the worry and fear of death. Through the quote “Rage, rage against the dying of the light” which is supposed to motivate his father to strictly go against death. But the title and multiple quotes mention “Do not go Gentle into that Good Night” (lines 1, 6, 12), which suggests the opposite of the idea of such a fearful death as it uses the words gentle and good. These play on words between the two quotes make it sound enticing enough to fall into the idea of such a gentle death even when the goal is not to. Despite the dark and inticing reputation death holds, Thomas’ poem creates more enlightening idea of death whilst proving motivation to fight against death. Through the use of metaphors, puns, and paradoxes in Thomas’ poem, he attempts to provide his father the motivation to avoid giving up on himself so easily into the idea of death. STORY NUMBER 4: As time passes by, relationship between parents and children will naturally change. In the poem “Follower” by Seamus Heaney, imagery configures the natural change of position between a parent and a child over advancing age. Heaney vividly describes the look of his father in his point of view. He states that his father’s “shoulders globed like a full sail strung” (line 2). This description reveals the father’s practiced skills, professionalism, and the tempered craft he owns, which Heaney wanted to imitate. Heaney also accounts the struggle he experienced when he followed his father in the old days. He brings up a moment when he “stumbled in [his father’s] hob-nailed wake, [sometimes falling] on the polished sod” (line 13-14). This illustrates the immature and yet unskilled image of a child, that follows the pathway of his parent, who is an expert. Finally, Heaney shows the change in relationship between him and his father. He interprets that now, his “father [stumbles] behind [him]” (line 23-24). Readers can see the change of position between these two, the follower becoming the leader, the leader becoming the follower, as the father who was the leader is now following Heaney, who was the follower. With the imagery of scenes in Heaney’s growth, from when Heaney only looked over the shoulders of his father, to following his pathway, to then, finally becoming a leader himself, Heaney neatly shows that the relationship between a parent and a child changes over time.Arts & Humanities Writing Creative Writing
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