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Robert Hayden's Poem, Those Winter Sundays |
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In Robert Hayden's poem Those Winter Sundays, we are told of the Sunday morning ritual of a son and his father from the son's perspective. Through a variety of imagery, we see that the father is hardworking, has sacrificed his life to provide for his family's comfort, and is all too often unappreciated by those for who he sacrifices. The father in this poem is revealed to us through various images. He is the firs to rise in the freezing cold house on Sunday mornings, a house that is pervaded by "blueblack cold" (Hayden 1966, 1). The father's is a man who has worked hard to provide for his family, as despite his "cracked hands" that "ached" from his "labour" he still rekindles the fire to warm the house for his family (Hayden 1966, 1). Despite these sacrifices, we are told by the speaker,
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