4. How to analyze
Diction
• Read the text, underline interesting words or phrases
that attract your attention.
5. How to analyze
Diction
• Read the text, underline interesting words or phrases
that attract your attention.
• Consider the particular word/phrase, ask “Why X
and not Y”?
6. How to analyze
Diction
• Read the text, underline interesting words or phrases
that attract your attention.
• Consider the particular word/phrase, ask “Why X
and not Y”?
• Denotation: literal meaning & Connotation: implied
meaning
7. How to analyze
Diction
• Read the text, underline interesting words or phrases
that attract your attention.
• Consider the particular word/phrase, ask “Why X
and not Y”?
• Denotation: literal meaning & Connotation: implied
meaning
• How does the word/phrase elaborate the underlying
meaning or theme of the text
8. Those Winter Sundays
By 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 labour 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.
10. Those Winter Sundays
By robert hayden
1. Read the text, underline interesting words or phrases that attract your attention.
11. Those Winter Sundays
By robert hayden
1. Read the text, underline interesting words or phrases that attract your attention.
1. Sundays
12. Those Winter Sundays
By robert hayden
1. Read the text, underline interesting words or phrases that attract your attention.
1. Sundays
2. Consider the particular word/phrase, ask “Why X and not Y”?
13. Those Winter Sundays
By robert hayden
1. Read the text, underline interesting words or phrases that attract your attention.
1. Sundays
2. Consider the particular word/phrase, ask “Why X and not Y”?
1. Why “Sunday” and not any other day of the week?
14. Those Winter Sundays
By robert hayden
1. Read the text, underline interesting words or phrases that attract your attention.
1. Sundays
2. Consider the particular word/phrase, ask “Why X and not Y”?
1. Why “Sunday” and not any other day of the week?
3. Denotation: literal meaning & Connotation: implied meaning
15. Those Winter Sundays
By robert hayden
1. Read the text, underline interesting words or phrases that attract your attention.
1. Sundays
2. Consider the particular word/phrase, ask “Why X and not Y”?
1. Why “Sunday” and not any other day of the week?
3. Denotation: literal meaning & Connotation: implied meaning
1. Literal meaning of Sunday: weekend/not work day
16. Those Winter Sundays
By robert hayden
1. Read the text, underline interesting words or phrases that attract your attention.
1. Sundays
2. Consider the particular word/phrase, ask “Why X and not Y”?
1. Why “Sunday” and not any other day of the week?
3. Denotation: literal meaning & Connotation: implied meaning
1. Literal meaning of Sunday: weekend/not work day
2. Implied meaning of Sunday: on a day of rest, the father wakes up
early and gets the house in order for the family.
17. Those Winter Sundays
By robert hayden
1. Read the text, underline interesting words or phrases that attract your attention.
1. Sundays
2. Consider the particular word/phrase, ask “Why X and not Y”?
1. Why “Sunday” and not any other day of the week?
3. Denotation: literal meaning & Connotation: implied meaning
1. Literal meaning of Sunday: weekend/not work day
2. Implied meaning of Sunday: on a day of rest, the father wakes up
early and gets the house in order for the family.
4. How does the word/phrase elaborate the underlying meaning or theme of the text?
18. Those Winter Sundays
By robert hayden
1. Read the text, underline interesting words or phrases that attract your attention.
1. Sundays
2. Consider the particular word/phrase, ask “Why X and not Y”?
1. Why “Sunday” and not any other day of the week?
3. Denotation: literal meaning & Connotation: implied meaning
1. Literal meaning of Sunday: weekend/not work day
2. Implied meaning of Sunday: on a day of rest, the father wakes up
early and gets the house in order for the family.
4. How does the word/phrase elaborate the underlying meaning or theme of the text?
1. Theme of the poem: Father’s appearances versus reality
19. Those Winter Sundays
By robert hayden
1. Read the text, underline interesting words or phrases that attract your attention.
1. Sundays
2. Consider the particular word/phrase, ask “Why X and not Y”?
1. Why “Sunday” and not any other day of the week?
3. Denotation: literal meaning & Connotation: implied meaning
1. Literal meaning of Sunday: weekend/not work day
2. Implied meaning of Sunday: on a day of rest, the father wakes up
early and gets the house in order for the family.
4. How does the word/phrase elaborate the underlying meaning or theme of the text?
1. Theme of the poem: Father’s appearances versus reality
2. Father seems hard and tough, from “chronic angers of that house”,
but actually he displays love and sacrifice.
20. Group Practice
• Review “Those Winter Sundays”.
• Underline at least 3 interesting words or phrases in
the text, one from each verse.
• Analyze the diction of the poem using 4-step
questioning process.
• Chart out the 3 points on butcher sheet for gallery
walk.
48. How to analyze
symbols
• Look for nouns that maybe emphasized or of
importance
49. How to analyze
symbols
• Look for nouns that maybe emphasized or of
importance
• Denotative & Connotative meanings
50. How to analyze
symbols
• Look for nouns that maybe emphasized or of
importance
• Denotative & Connotative meanings
• How can the connotative meanings represent
larger themes or truths?
51. Pair Practice
• Read “A Poison Tree” on page 55.
• Underline interesting words, phrases or nouns in the text.
• Analyze the diction & symbolism of the poem.
• Answers the following questions fully in your journal using
PEAL format:
• What does the apple symbolize?
• What does the tree symbolize?
• What is this poem about?
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Spring - birth, new life, revival, new beginning, motherhood\nSummer - growth, happiness, joy, carefree\nAutumn - maturity, wisdom, learning, fulfilment\nWinter - death, old age, isolation, despaird\n
Spring - birth, new life, revival, new beginning, motherhood\nSummer - growth, happiness, joy, carefree\nAutumn - maturity, wisdom, learning, fulfilment\nWinter - death, old age, isolation, despaird\n
Spring - birth, new life, revival, new beginning, motherhood\nSummer - growth, happiness, joy, carefree\nAutumn - maturity, wisdom, learning, fulfilment\nWinter - death, old age, isolation, despaird\n
