Poem Analysis Of Those Winter Sundays By Robert Hayden
The poem “Those Winter Sundays,” by Robert Hayden, tells a story about a boy’s affection for his father. Throughout the poem, it can be seen how much the son admired his father. Also, it can be seen how much his father selflessly did for his family and how this related to how his son felt about him. Lastly, this poem has made me think of how this relates to my own life.
This poem is from the perspective of a man telling about his experiences from his youth. He tells how “Sundays too [his] father got up early/ and put his clothes on in the blueback cold,/ then… made banked fires blaze” (lines 1-5). This was his son reflecting back on how much his father sacrificed for him and the family. No one likes getting up early on a Sunday to go out in the freezing cold to work, however, he …show more content…
What the narrator's father went through for him and his family went unnoticed which can be seen when he said: “no one ever thanked him” (line 5). When the narrator thought back on all of the sacrifices his father had made, it really enhanced the way he felt regarding his father. He now speaks so highly of what his father had done when at the time he treated it indifferently. Sadly, this is the case for most people, it is rare that while people are young they realize the extent of what their parents sacrifice for them. This reminds me of a line from Passenger’s hit song “Let Her Go”, “only need the light when it's burning low/ only miss the sun when it starts to snow/ only know you love her when you let her go”. The song is all about how you really never know what you have until you no longer have it. This relates to the poem because the narrator never knew how much his father did for him until he was, presumably, older and out on his own where his father is not longer making these sacrifices for him or possibly he is a father now himself making his own sacrifices for his own
This poem is from the perspective of a man telling about his experiences from his youth. He tells how “Sundays too [his] father got up early/ and put his clothes on in the blueback cold,/ then… made banked fires blaze” (lines 1-5). This was his son reflecting back on how much his father sacrificed for him and the family. No one likes getting up early on a Sunday to go out in the freezing cold to work, however, he …show more content…
What the narrator's father went through for him and his family went unnoticed which can be seen when he said: “no one ever thanked him” (line 5). When the narrator thought back on all of the sacrifices his father had made, it really enhanced the way he felt regarding his father. He now speaks so highly of what his father had done when at the time he treated it indifferently. Sadly, this is the case for most people, it is rare that while people are young they realize the extent of what their parents sacrifice for them. This reminds me of a line from Passenger’s hit song “Let Her Go”, “only need the light when it's burning low/ only miss the sun when it starts to snow/ only know you love her when you let her go”. The song is all about how you really never know what you have until you no longer have it. This relates to the poem because the narrator never knew how much his father did for him until he was, presumably, older and out on his own where his father is not longer making these sacrifices for him or possibly he is a father now himself making his own sacrifices for his own