Summary Of Robert Hayden's 'Those Winter Sundays'

Relationship is the connection between two or more people or groups and their involvement with each other. Relationship can be created through blood or feelings toward each other, whether the relationship is between two or more life forms or between a life form and an object. The following will reveal relationship as depicted in Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays”, Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz”, and Cisnero’s “Barbie-Q” and the ramifications of sacrificial, spontaneity, and obsession.
Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sunday” tells the story about how relationship does not have to be showed off, that it’s not about telling the other person on the relationship know what good deeds they do for them, but relationship is where one would sacrifice what
Even though he must be tired from working all week long, he still wakes up early on the weekend so he can warm the house up by lighting the furnace early in the morning before everyone else wakes up. Although the father work hard for the family, that is not the only sacrifices he made for them. It is shown where the speaker said “… polished my good shoes as well” (Hayden 496). Every loving father always knew what to do in order to make their kids happy, even if it’s just a simple stuff like polishing the kid’s shoes. A father who would polish their kids shoes is a very caring and sacrificial father, because of the fact that he has a spare time to do that despite the fact of him being busy for work and he can be an example to be followed by the kids too, where the kid will grow up to be just like him. Those Winter Sundays convey a picture of a journey the speaker’s has to gone through, although he wrote this piece when he was already a grown up man, he has to go through life obstacles to figure out about his father’s sacrifice when he is old, “The last two lines of Hayden’s poem provide some relief of weight of the proceeding lines in one way and, in another way, seal in the great hurt of the recollection. It is a relief for the reader to know that the child of the poem has escaped the despondency of ‘Those Winter Sundays.’ And, with the distance, there is at least some recognition of those past as
The duality of an event is an example how a father has a power within themselves that can be used to make their child happy “always convey a sense of awesome, godlike power” (Malkoff 3). Releasing their feelings is easier when they are not required to say a word, but it is easier to express through action, in this case it is waltzing around the house. Until they finally reached the speaker’s room “then waltzed me off to bed still clinging to your shirt.” (Roethke 505). The speaker won’t let go of his father’s shirt, showing how much he loves and misses him from not being able to see him for the day until almost his bed time. Only being able to see his father’s action of spontaneity on that short span of time would definitely make a child feel like they want to spend more time with their father as much as they can, even if it’s only one second