Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden

Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden is a powerful poem that centers the relationship between the father and the child with a mixed feeling of admiration, love among others. The poem is universal as it transverse race and class. Moreover, the poem is about the memory of a son regarding his father duties every Sunday. The paper will focus on the poetry analysis of Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden.

In each stanza in Those Winters Sunday’s poem, there is a hint of a cold relationship between the son and the father.  Roberts writes ‘fearing the chronic anger of that house (9)’, portrays the strained relationship between the son and the father. The complex nature of the relationship is also illustrated

     The central theme of the poem is the duty as well as parental sacrifice. The role of the father is portrayed from the speaker’s perspective. Robert describes his father’s sacrifice where he writes ‘Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold’, (1-2).

 In the poem, the word father is formally employed, and it may be tied to the selfless figure suffer on behalf of others. Robert writes ‘Sundays too my father got up early’ (1) after working throughout the week, ‘his cracked hands that ached’ (3) create an image of a manual worker who never rests.

 In conclusion, Those Winter Sundays poem offer a good platform for poetry analysis. It is from the poem that one learns that the relationship between the son and the father is strenuous. The theme of sacrifice is also well outlined, and the selfless suffering of the father is seen through the speaker.

Work Cited

"Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden." Poetry Foundation, www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46461/those-winter-sundays.