Thursday, April 17, 2008

Those Winter Sunday's&Woman Work

Those Winter Sundays
1. From what point in time does the speaker view the subject matter of the poem? What has happened to him in the interval?
a. The speaker views the subject matter, right at the beginning of the poem when he acknowledges his father, working in the cold early in the morning.

Woman Work
1. Most of the chores in the first 14 lines are associated popularly with “woman[‘s] work,” but two are not. What do these exceptions reveal about the situation of the speaker?
a. The two lines that are not important or not related to womans work, is “The cane to be cut, and, and the cotton to pick.” This suggests that the speaker is black or a slave working on a plantation.

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