Two Poems About Fathers
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In "Those Winter Sundays" Robert Hayden gives a brief, but compelling, portrait of his father. Though the poem is short, it is packed with emotion and evokes strong visual images of a devoted father, getting up in the early winter mornings to light a fire and warm the house before the family has to rise. It shows the love the father had for his family, carrying out an unenviable task on bleak, cold, winter mornings, thinking not of himself, but only of his family and their comforts and needs. It is an utterly unselfish act that he performs, not seeking thanks or rewards for what he has done. No one every thought to thank him for what he did for them. As a boy, Hayden did not understand what sacrifice his father was making, never thought to appreciate it, even when his father, after building the fire and warming the
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Approximate Word count = 556
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page)
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