Analysis Of Those Winter Sundays 
Analysis of Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays”
“Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden describes a relationship between father and son. It shares many different emotions such as unconditional love, fear, regret, ungratefulness, compassion, and hate. Hayden makes this work very relatable to us, possibly making us reflect on our relationships with our own parents. Almost all relationships do come with some sort of complication, but it is important to know that complication can be overcome and to never take someone you love for granted. In “Those Winter Sundays”, Hayden describes to us what a winter Sunday was like in his childhood home. By reading this first stanza we can make many observations about the speaker and his father. “Sundays too” implies that Sunday, along with all days of the week, his father does these things. For many, Sunday is a day of rest, but not for his father. “Blueblack cold” shows imagery of just how cold it is during the morning time. Instead of just saying blue or black cold, the author combines to the two to make it more effective. Just hearing the term gives us a feeling of extreme chill. The “blueblack cold” also can be used as a metaphor to describe the son’s emotion, telling us that he feels cold and even miserable through his childhood. “Then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze” tell us that the father is very hard working. His hands are not just dry like most people’s hands would be after they have been in the cold, but they are cracked. By this observation, the father is doing physical labor is that is probably taking place outdoors, in the low temperatures. “Banked fires blaze,” means that father is getting up in the morning to heat the home and make sure it is warm for his family. The final line of the first stanza, “No one ever thanked him” gives us sense of ungratefulness from the members of the family. The past tense of the poem shows a sense of regret from the
“Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden describes a relationship between father and son. It shares many different emotions such as unconditional love, fear, regret, ungratefulness, compassion, and hate. Hayden makes this work very relatable to us, possibly making us reflect on our relationships with our own parents. Almost all relationships do come with some sort of complication, but it is important to know that complication can be overcome and to never take someone you love for granted. In “Those Winter Sundays”, Hayden describes to us what a winter Sunday was like in his childhood home. By reading this first stanza we can make many observations about the speaker and his father. “Sundays too” implies that Sunday, along with all days of the week, his father does these things. For many, Sunday is a day of rest, but not for his father. “Blueblack cold” shows imagery of just how cold it is during the morning time. Instead of just saying blue or black cold, the author combines to the two to make it more effective. Just hearing the term gives us a feeling of extreme chill. The “blueblack cold” also can be used as a metaphor to describe the son’s emotion, telling us that he feels cold and even miserable through his childhood. “Then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze” tell us that the father is very hard working. His hands are not just dry like most people’s hands would be after they have been in the cold, but they are cracked. By this observation, the father is doing physical labor is that is probably taking place outdoors, in the low temperatures. “Banked fires blaze,” means that father is getting up in the morning to heat the home and make sure it is warm for his family. The final line of the first stanza, “No one ever thanked him” gives us sense of ungratefulness from the members of the family. The past tense of the poem shows a sense of regret from the