Boys and Girls
¡§ Poetry is full of surprises ¡K Even poems on ¡¥predictable¡¦ subjects can surprise us with unpredicated attitudes, unusual events, or a sudden twist ¡¥ ( Beaty and Hunter 620 ) . This is one of the most important natures of poetry. The poem ¡¥Those Winter Sundays¡¦ is really a good example as its ending is very surprising --- from neglecting and fearing of father at the beginning to appreciating him in the end. Readers need to read to the end so as to know the result. The poem¡¥Those Winter Sundays¡¦ was written by the first-person perspective. In the first stanza of the poem , the speaker first introduced his father by describing that his father always got up very early in winter Sundays. Then, his father made fire blaze so as to make the house warm for him in the cold winter. However, he didn¡¦t thank his father. In the second stanza, the speaker woke up then and heard the sounds of the wood in the fire. He described the sounds as splintering and breaking. Then, when the rooms were warm enough, his father would call him to wake up. Although the winter was very cold, the speaker still got up and dressed as he was afraid that his father would become angry. In the last stanza, the speaker spo
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Approximate Word count = 1179
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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