Symbolism In Those Winter Sundays

Robert Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays” describes a familial relationship between two people, and how that makes one of the characters register the sacrifices of his father, allowing him to be more grateful and to relinquish his cold attitude. The child’s father could be considered a hardworking man, because after a strenuous week of work, he continues to fulfill his duties of a parent and tends to his family. “..With cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze” Maturity, along with experience is symbolized by “cracked hands that ached”, it is not common for a younger man to have such aged hands. Another example of symbolism is when Hayden mentioned “good shoes” and “Sundays too my father got up early,’