In life we often come to know ourselves to a greater degree as we come to a greater understanding of our parents. The speaker in Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" and the narrator in Raymond Carver's "My Father's Life" also come to just such a fuller understanding of their parents and themselves.
In "Those Winter Sundays," the speaker remembers his childhood days by remembering how his father with "cracked hands" that "ached" from "labour" would rise in the "blueblack cold
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