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My passion is ...

the environment and education.

I know too much about ...

accounting and the U.S. government.

My parents always told me ...

try not to be such a rebel.

My childhood ambition ...

to be a flight attendant.

My favorite memory ...

swimming in Lake Tapps around islands beneath the shadow of Mt. Rainier: After 8 miles, a boater stopped and asked, "Aren't you afraid that you'll drown?" I replied, "Not unless you hit me with your boat."

Why I write ...

to put the world into perspective.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

university curriculum: literature, french, mathematics, chemistry and biology.

My first job ...

federal agent for the IRS

My best moment ...

was saving the UCSC arboretum and completing the Euclid Project.

My inspiration ...

comes from my professors.

Arts & Humanities > Poets & Poetry Poetry analysis: Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden

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The Poem:

Robert Hayden published the poem, "Those Winter Sundays," in 1962. It is a short lyric. The term lyric is derived from "lyre." Traditionally, a lyric poem is accompanied by a lyre. A lyre is a string instrument, similar to a harp. The lyric poem is characteristically short, musical and regarding the speaker's emotions. This poem is regarding the speaker's remembrance of childhood moments and sacrifices made by his father, and his feelings now as an adult. The duality of perspectives provides the poem power in the form of tension. The tension lies between the view point ...

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