Analyizing Poetry

In "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden, and in "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota" by James Wright, both speakers have a feeling of regret. Both of the authors have the same approaches to making this feeling apparent. In each of these poems, the feeling of regret and disappointment in themselves is portrayed through the use of imagery. In the poem "Those Winter Sundays", the use of imagery is …

…poem, he regretted not doing anything with his life. The use of imagery greatly gives the audience a better feel for how each speaker related to their environments. Hayden's use of imagery mostly implied that the setting was cold, and brutal, and that his father getting up every Sunday morning was unbearable, while Wright's use of it, gave the audience the feeling that everything the speaker saw was doing something, but he was doing nothing.