In “Those Winter Sundays” the poet uses these stanzas to support the underlying theme which could be confused with prose. Having these special techniques in the poem allows the reader to relate and connect with the speaker in the poem. In the next four lines, the author uses alliteration and a discordance of noise that exudes harshness to show the father's pain and the difficulties in his life. In lines two to five the speaker describes his father's life to the reader "and he put on his clothes in the cold blue-black, then with chapped hands that ached from work during weekdays he made the fires blaze" (2 -5). In lines two and three, the author uses brutal consonant sounds in the words “cold,” “cracked,” and “pained” to appeal to the reader's sense of touch and sight. The reader reacts to the use of words by feeling the father's physical suffering through the powerful images "chapped hands that hurt." This leads the reader to assume various things, such as that the man is exhausted from work or perhaps has arthritis which would lead to dry, sore hands. The audience also receives a sense of the family's humble economic status due to descriptive words such as “bluenero,” “work,” and “weekday”.