The words we say

I have always loved poetry because of the freedom they give. They can show the reader many different ways words can paint our emotions or experiences. Like you mentioned on the blog, every word means something. The author purposely wrote his poem a specific way. I like in the poem Those Winter Sundays, how Hayden uses a lot of oo sounds in his words which gave it a more relaxed feel just like I feel on winter mornings. At the very beginning when Hayden used "too" in regards to his father getting up, it seemed to imply that his father got up early everyday of the week but on sundays he didn't have to. Later in the poem when the line was repeated twice, made me feel how deep his regret was for not understanding how much his father loved him and appreciating the things that he did for his family. Hayden talks about these experiences in past tense which makes me believe that this is a long time ago and maybe even after the passing of his father. Through the sounds of the different words, the words themselves and how the words are strung together can really make a poem come alive in the reader.