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?
2.1) Refer to 'and put his clothes on in the blue black cold, (line 2)
2.1.1) What does the word 'blue black' tell us about the weather?
2.2) Refer to 'banked fires blaze.......... (line 5):
2.2.1)
Identify the sound device.
(2)
2.2.2)
Explain how this sound device is appropriate.
(1)
(2)
2.3) Refer to 'What did I know, what did I know?' (line 18)
2.3.1) Identify two figures of speech in this line.
(2)
2.3.2) Explain how these figure of speech are linked to the theme of
Misunderstanding' in the poem.
(2)
2.4) Refer to the title of the poem, 'Those Winter Sundays':
2.4.1) What sort of poem does the reader expect with this title? Explain your answer.
(3)
2.5) Refer to 'Wrinkled and crying........on the right' (lines' 12 and 13). Explain what ha
happened in these lines.
(3)
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