Day Break in Alabama vs Those winter sundays
...place warm for his child to get up, and the once child is now reflecting that he never said thank you. On the other hand, Hughes’ poem is about someone who wants to change the future by bringing different types of people together. Both poems all in all, show wishful thinking in how both the past and the future can be changed. In Hayden’s poem gives off a type of melancholy mood with abstract descriptions while Hughes’ poem is more hopeful and has a Hayden’s poem starts by recognizing what a hard worker the father of the house was “Sundays too my father got up early.” The sensory images presented in the poem helps the writer to portray and dramatize the significance and unbearable effect the cold has on any human life. For example “cracked hands that ached,” “hear the cold.” The diction chosen by the author not only personifies certain objects and the surroundings, but also gives the poem an edgy eery feeling. “Blue black cold,” t...