Those Winter Sundays By Robert Hayden

In “Those Winter Sundays”, Robert Hayden introduces us to the theme of love unlike in any other poems. The theme of love in this poem is different from any other contemporary love themes because here, Hayden doesn’t talk about the amorously affectionate emotion between young lovers like Romeo and Juliet, but the deep familial love between a parent and a child. This kind of love is not pretentious. Their love is not exhibited by kisses or hugs; while it may go unnoticed it is always in existence. Hayden showcases the love between the parent and a child as the most selfless and strongest love of them all. Hayden defines an unspoken love and offers us a glimpse into an ordinary father-child relationship by the use of literary elements such as sound, point of view of the speaker and imagery with vivid description that includes details that appeal to the senses.

People have different perceptions and ways to show love. In the poems “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden and “Magic of Love” by Helen Ferries, the poets describe love in two different ways. These two poems have differences and similarities. Both poems have the same theme which is love; however, they have different uses of imagery and dissimilar tones. The first poem “Those Winter Sundays” defines the meaning of love and describes the love the son has for his father 's; on the other hand, the second poem “Magic of Love” looks at love as a gift of heaven. I think the second poem “Magic of Love” is more powerful than the first poem “Those Winter Sundays” because has a beautiful sense of what is love.

The speaker’s has some images of his childhood years with his father in early Sundays mornings. In the poem “Those Winter Sundays” the speaker’s present attitude is prompted by his Image, Circumstances, and Memory of his childhood relationship with his father’s

”(806). The love that is presented in Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” portrays a child’s inability to see the sacrifice the father made to make sure he was cared for. The love shown in this poem is selfish, cruel, destitute, and silent. The difference between the two poems is that in the first poem the people are open to receiving love and able to enjoy its grandness, whereas, in the other poem the love there is grim and neither member seems eager to mend the situation. Love is unexplainable because it can transform the ugliest of things into beauty, and it can create despair when it goes unnoticed. Unconditional love is the most secure love of all. The love between parent and child is often never ending because it doesn’t matter what happens, people love their children and parents forever. In Pack’s poem the mother makes a startling discovery of her daughter’s and lovers first time. “An in the morning when her mother/ Came and saw them there in bed,/ Heard how a frog became a prince;/ What was it that her mother said?” (749). What was it the mother said to the young couple? What ever it was the princess obviously felt secure enough to have sex in her mothers’ house. Open communication exists between the mother and daughter, and she must have spoke to them about love and commitment. The bond between the father and child, in Hayden’s poem is non-existing.

In the poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden, the speaker is reflecting on his past with his father, but mainly the Sunday mornings he experienced during his childhood. Throughout the poem, there also happens to be a very dark and possibly even somber tone, which is shown by using several different types of literary devices. Hayden utilizes strong imagery supported by diction and substantial symbolism comprehensively. Furthermore, there are various examples of both alliteration and assonances. The poem does not rhyme and its meter has little to no order. Although the father labors diligently all day long, and he still manages to be a caring person in his son’s life. The poem’s main conflict comes from the son not realizing how good his father actually was to him until he was much older. When the speaker was a young boy, he regarded his father as a callous man due to his stern attitude and apparent lack of proper affection towards him. Now that the son is older, he discovers that even though his father did not express his love in words, he consistently did with his acts of kindness and selflessness.

In Robert Hayden’s poem, “Those Winter Sundays”, the narrator reminiscences on the crucial work that his father had done for their family during his childhood. He recalls how ungrateful he was towards his father and regrets his own actions. The first stanza describes how the author’s father went out every morning to start the fires during the winter. Inversion is used in the first sentence to give a glimpse of how he did this; “Sundays too [his] father gets up early”, which emphasizes his dedication to his work.

“Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden uses both visual and tactile imagery to show the main characters view change of his father from negative to positive. Visual imagery applies itself to the colors in the poems to convey the change while tactile uses feelings, such as the feeling of different temperatures, to portray the message of growth and understanding of love in its different forms. The poem tells the reader a story of how this boy’s father did not show him the stereotypical mushy kind of love, instead the father put all of his love into take care of the child. This lead the boy to feel abandoned and hated by his dad. Once he got older, however, his view of him changed. He remembered how the father each morning would start a fire to warm the house and how he'd shine his shoes, even though he was constantly tired. “What did I know… of love’s austere and lonely offices?” The main character realized that love comes in many shapes and forms. He felt unloved because at a young age, if it’s not obvious and straight forward, they

After overviewing the poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden, the reader can infer that the speaker is remorseful and sorrowful by using context clues and imagery to understand the theme: “Love, but quiet love can go unnoticed.” Throughout the poem, Hayden uses imagery like in line 3 and 4 “Then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather.” The reader can infer that the father is a dedicated man who spends most of his weekdays working hard to make a living and trying to give the speaker a good life. Hayden also uses imagery in lines 10 to 12 “Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well.” The speaker talks as though he feels remorseful for not giving more to his father

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     Robert Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays” is a reflection the speaker has regarding his father. An analysis of the poem’s tone and language reveals the speaker regrets his father did so much for the family and “no one ever thanked him”. It is obvious the speaker feels regret for the way he behaved toward his father in the past by examining the phrases in the poem, particularly with the description of the father. The connotations of the language used in this description denote the father in a certain way that the speaker did not see him as before. The tone and feeling of regret or sorrow is evident in the poem not only through language and word choice on the literal surface,

Although Robert Hayden and Sylvia Plath both use vivid imagery to display their fathers, the way the authors use imagery is different. In Plath’s “Daddy,” she uses imagery to paint a dark picture of a Nazi who holds the title of her father. She uses imagery to compare her father to a black, confining shoe. She compares herself to a foot that has been living in the shoe for thirty years (Plath 290). The shoe metaphor represents her confinement under her father’s rule, but she is finally free. Because freedom from confinement is one of the main themes for “Daddy,” Plath’s use of imagery contributes to the theme of the poem. Conversely, Robert Hayden uses imagery in “Those Winter Sundays” to display his father’s work ethic. He uses works like, “cracked hands,” and “blueblack cold,” to show the conditions that his father went through because of his love for his children (Hayden 288). Hayden’s use of imagery helps to show the theme of “Those Winter Sundays,” regret for being unappreciative of a father’s love, by showing the obstacles that Hayden’s father went through for his son. The authors use of imagery helps display the overall themes of the poems by demonstrating their fathers’ character.

“Those Winter Sundays” is a poem written by Robert Hayden. This poem is about the speaker looking back to his childhood and his dispassion toward his father as a child. As an adult, he has come to realize his lack of gratitude as a boy. Although the poem seems cold, blue, and cheerless at first view, Hayden’s fondness and love for his father appeared understandable. There are times where we look back to our lives earlier and we feel regret and shame.

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Love, in any form, is such that people find ways of celebrating it. The American poet Robert Hayden honors this compelling emotion in the poem “Those Winter Sundays.” “Those Winter Sundays” is a fourteen-line literary work that gives a description of an event from the speaker’s past. Although the poem is a short description of an event past, much information can be read between the lines of few words. Freelance writer Jeannine Johnson characterizes Hayden’s work to honor “the value of love’s simple, domestic services in our lives” (Johnson). Moreover, the value of love in “Those Winter Sundays” is underlined by the use of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic sensory images to emphasize the change in the speaker’s perspective of the events.