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The first poem in the collection for analysis is “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden. The poem is about realizing and regretting not being more appreciative for the father’s hard work and those little things the father did for the family, that the speaker took for granted. In the second stanza, you might also think that the relationship could have been tough and now the speaker regrets not being more thankful for the things his father did for him. In line 13-14 when the speaker says, “What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices?” (13-14), the speaker is imposing a rhetorical question with a sad repetition, that suggests he was uncaring towards the father and possibly never acknowledging his kind gestures. The
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