In my own eyes the meaning of this poem is a message of hope, mothers love, and giving. The mother of the son has no cloth or thread to make clothing for her son. She does not have any money to go out and buy such materials. The cold weather is making it hard on the boy to even show up at school because of his lack of clothing. One night as the boy lye awake, he watched his mother as she wove children's jackets, a red cloak, a pair of pants, a pair of boots, a hat, a pair of mittens, and a little blouse. As she wove all through the night, it was as if nothing could stop her. The son was thankful for his mother's affection towards him and took the pieces of clothing as he cherished it with his heart and…
Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays” is about a man lacking appreciation for the hard work and dedication that he does on a day to day basis for his job, but his child loves and appreciates him for all of the hard work that he does. The poem was from a child’s point of view and the theme of Those Winter Sundays is created through the stream of consciousness, conflicts, symbolism, and a flat/ static relationship of the poem. The father rises early on Sundays after a dense week of work, it seems as though no one appreciates him. Considering that the father work all the time the father might not show that he cares because he is not emotionally intact. However, getting up early to attend work shows that he cares because he is doing what he has to do to take care of the house. “Sundays to my father got up early. No one ever thanked him” (line1 & 5). This line represents a loving child who watches their father despises on getting up every Sunday to go to work and never receives a thank you for all of the hard work that he has done.…
“Those Winter Sundays,” Robert Hayden and “My Papa’s Waltz,” Theodore Roethke describe the emotional and personal relationship between the son and their father. Both narrators seem to be reflecting on a childhood memory of their father. The two poems, “Those Winter Sundays” and “My Papa’s Waltz,” show a father’s love for his family. “Those Winter Sundays” in line 12, Hayden states, “Polished my good shoes as well.” In the poem “My Papa’s Waltz” (line 13-14), Roethke speaks, “You beat time on my head, with a palm caked hard by dirt.” The narrators indicate that their fathers were hard working and took care of their family. The two poems are parallel in topic, but differ in theme and voice of the narrator and tone.…
In the poem “Those Winter Sundays”, the speaker is reflecting on his childhood and his lack of real emotion towards his father while he was a young child. When the speaker becomes an adult, he regrets not realizing that his father had his own way of affection towards him. In the present, the speaker realizes how hard and desolate it is to show parental love to someone. The poem‘s diction helps paint a vivid picture to the reader about the emotions in this piece.…
In the poem “Those Winter Sundays” the father is described to wake up every morning even on Sundays also, to warm the house up for his child. He worked all week doing labor and “No one ever thanked him” is a hint that people around him were very unappreciative. The narrator, in the last two sentences said, “what did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices” and he realizes what his father was doing for him. He felt that in the beginning his dad didn’t really care for him because the love wasn’t shown upfront with hugs, kisses and words.…
In the poem “Those winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden, I am guessing the author starts his poem relating an event that happened in his pass. Every winder Sunday morning, his father rise up from bed and put his shoes on in order to go out for firewood to keep his house warm.…
Through metaphors and meticulous word choice Robert Hayden illustrates people taking loved ones for granted in his poem, Those Winter Sundays. Words with negative connotations and the use of repetition underscores the underlying mood of remorse upon the speaker’s further reflection on their childhood.…
Upon first reading the poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden, I was an objective reader who assumed Hayden was looking back with nostalgia at his lost childhood. Without researching the poem, as well as Hayden himself, I had no way of knowing his background as an adopted child to unhappy parents in a dysfunctional household. After reading several sources, I’ve formed a somewhat new outlook on the poem and what it means not only to we the readers, but also to Hayden the poet.…
The poem begins with the speaker's recollection of his father in the morning. Greeted by the "blueblack [sic] cold (line 2)" the father begins his morning labours in "the weekday weather (Line 4)" in order to bring warmth to the household via fire regardless of his "cracked hands that ached from labour" (Line 3). This expresses the typical youth found in familial love in which the child is cared for by his or her parent lovingly, but such love is often overlooked…
The autobiographical novel, A Death In The Family, written by James Agee is about how the Follet family deals and reacts with the death of a young father. Broken up into three parts, Agee formulates the story to display each of the character’s thoughts and feelings about the loss and grief of the adolescent father, Jay Follet. Part one of the novel opens up with a father, Jay, and his son, Rufus, taking an outing to the movie theater to watch a Charlie Chaplin motion picture. Both enjoyed these trips with just the two of them because it gave them the time to bond.…
He works to provide and support his family everyday through simple tasks and labor. The father consistently provides for his family even on days of rest, “Sundays too” (line 1). Though the father works to provide for his family throughout the weekdays, he also manages to continue on the weekends. Furthermore, his physical appearance emphasizes the harsh duties he endures, “cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather” (3-4). Despite his chapped and sore limbs, he remains diligent and carries on with his work.…
Imagine your mother leaving you at a young age and never coming back. It would hurt, right? Now, imagine how confused you would be if you received a postcard from your mother, the one who abandoned you. At first there is just the one postcard, but then there were two, then three, and they just kept coming. The postcards always seem to find you; you move, they move. Your mother has always known where you were living; yet you do not know if you can trust the address on her postcards. The short story Love, Your Only Mother by David Michael Kaplan tells of this belittling experience in a way that is truly heartbreaking.…
In the poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden, Robert Hayden shows the speaker’s regrets for not recognizing his father’s love during his childhood.…
This poem is most relevant and I think it will always be relevant because it deals with family and the sacrifices parents make for their children. This poem reminds up to appreciate the things our guardian do and have done for us and to be grateful for having them I our lives no matter how…
Cited: Hayden, Robert, “Those Winter Sundays” from Collected Poems of Robert Hayden, edited by Frederick Glaysher, Copyright 1966 by Robert Hayden. Liveright Publishing Corporation.…