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  • Essay / These Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden - 748

    “These Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden In “These Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden, an adult, probably a man, recounts the winter Sundays of his childhood. He remembers the events that took place early in the morning and how these events reflected his father's love for him. The man realizes that when he was a child, he did not appreciate his father's hard work in providing him with some basic necessities and sometimes a few little extra perks. The theme of the poem is sad and lonely. Assuming the speaker is a man who remembers his childhood, the child was alone and perhaps even afraid of his father. The child seemed to associate the father with the “chronic anger of this house”. The speaker, who may also be the author, uses pictures and images to help the reader focus on important parts of the poem. Imagery plays a major role in this poem. The images used appeal to almost all of the reader's senses, except taste. From the first stanza, the reader's senses of touch and sight are engaged. For example, when the speaker describes the cracked hands that hurt, the reader sees an older man with dry, cracked hands. This may lead the reader to a number of assumptions that the man is exhausted from his work or perhaps suffers from arthritis, leading to dry and sore hands. He also appeals to the sense of touch and sight when he describes the father's hands and also when he "dresses in the blue »....