Winter Sundays Essay

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emotion in the poem “Those Winter Sundays.” “Those Winter Sundays” is a fourteen-line literary work that gives a description of an event from the speaker’s past. Although the poem is a short description of an event past, much information can be read between the lines of few words. Freelance writer Jeannine Johnson characterizes Hayden’s work to honor “the value of love’s simple, domestic services in our lives” (Johnson). Moreover, the value of love in “Those Winter Sundays” is underlined by the use

Cassidy Bulger The poems “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden and “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke both reflect upon the relationship between a father and his son. The two poems outline two different situations, but a combination of negative and positive feelings are present in both. In “Those Winter Sundays” a son realizes his father’s unappreciated acts of love and feels guilt for not appreciating him. In “My Papa’s Waltz,” a son, though abused, longs to gain the love of his father. The

Selflessly Responsible Having little to no concern for oneself, that definition of selfless best describes the father in Robert Hayden’s, “Those Winter Sundays”, as well as mine. Because of this I decided to write my first paper for this class about the relationship between a father and son. Before taking this class I was never able to relate to a poem quite like this one. Especially when it comes to how hard a good parent is willing work to provide for their family. How despite the fact

“Those Winter Sundays’” and “My Papa’s waltz” are poems based on father-son relationships. The relationship in “Those Winter Sunday” characterizes the father to be hard-working as well as thoughtful. “When the rooms were warm, he’d call…”, shows that although the father would wake up to “blueblack cold” he wanted his son to wake up in comfort. However, the relationship demonstrated in “My Papa’s Waltz” characterised father to create a possibly abusive relationship as well as very toxic household

“Those Winter Sundays” is a poem that shows the view of love between the son and the father. The father showed love by actions. There were no hugs and no kisses. You do not always need hugs and kisses to show love. Love can also be shown different as the father showed love in the poem. You may be wondering how does this poem define love?, or may be wondering what is the relationship between this poem and love? “Winter Love Sundays” is a love poem. In “Winter Love Sundays,” a young adult is talking

Goodman were roughly contemporaries (1911-1980), but they experienced life very differently and this is reflected in their poetry. Hayden’s Those Winter Sundays is more optimistic than Goodman’s Birthday Cake. In Robert Hayden’s poem Those Winter Sundays, he describes a typical Sunday in which his father labors for him and he doesn’t do much. For most, Sunday is a day of rest, but Hayden’s father continues to toil. His father would wake up early to build a fire to warm the house and clean his son’s

child’s perspective on life, and on love. The authors, Robert Hayden and Lucille Clifton, share the impact of their fathers through poetry, each with their own take on how their fathers treated them. The poems “Forgiving My Father” and “Those Winter Sundays” have significant differences in the speaker’s childhood experiences, the tone of the works, and the imagery presented, which all relate to the different themes of each poem. The first differences that are seen in each work are in the

while other children despise them. For example, in Robert Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays” Hayden writes about his regret that he did not show his love for his hardworking father sooner. In Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy,” she writes about her hatred for her brute father. Despite both authors writing on the same topic, the two pieces are remarkably different. Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” and Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” have different themes that are assembled when the authors put their different

In both “Those Winter Sundays” and “My Papas Waltz,” the speakers reminisce about their fathers. Although the speakers’ father in each poem is a man who loves and works hard for his son, each father displays his love for his son through different acts. In “Those Winter Sundays,” by Robert Hayden, the speakers father indirectly expresses his undying love to his son through rigorous work around the house. The father is always striving to improve the house and make sure his son is comfortable, while