Those Winter Sundays Analysis

Those Winter Sundays The hard work done by a father is typically overseen by those who rely upon it. It is ever apparent in the poem, Those Winter Sundays, by Robert Hayden. In the poem, the speaker tells of the many cold days his father would wake up early in order to make his family’s life more comfortable. These are thankless acts that are not for acknowledgement nor thanks, but for the love of his family. Work goes unnoticed bysp the youth of the family just as much now as it did when this poem was made. Only once the speaker had grown did he realize how much effort his father put towards the comfort of his family. The ungratefulness for his father’s work is what the speaker reminisces on in a sense of regret, unappreciative regret. Through symbolism, imagery, and tone, Hayden reminisces on the thankless efforts of his father. The speaker realizes the true effort his father put towards the well being of him and his family. This is possibly due to the fact that he has children of his own now that act the same as he once did. “Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.” (Hayden 1-5) The realization of what his father did has truly set
“I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house.” (Hayden 6-9) The frustrations of his father went unnoticed because he woke up to a warm house and had things done for him every day, the only way of life known to him. The cold that was felt early in the morning would soon be gone thanks to his father. The emotions that filled the house were once misunderstood at this point. The anger seemed unnecessary, but would eventually make