"The Winter Sundays" is a poem we have recently read in class. I understood many concepts from reading this piece. We also held many class discussions on it to help better out understands and hear other point of views on the poem. The poem is about a boy who lived his life poorly and is now about thirty years older and looking back. Robert Hayden grew up in Texas, around the 1960's. Robert is reiterating to the reader how his life was when he was a young kid. The life style he had was of a poor families life. He wished he could have the things the surrounding children had around him, and usually questioned why he didn't. .
The speakers father had a great role in why the family had the kind of life style they did. it was not done purposely but he could not do much. Roberts father worked hard and came across many hardships. He nonstop worked, and didn't have much time for much else. He wasn't around enough to enjoy the bringing up of his own children. With some families today it is still the same way. Some families are not as fortunate as others and have to like a life even under the middle class. There is nothing wrong with that kind of life style. There are many ways people can get out of living like that. Main example, and this was talking about in class, is education. Not too many people realize how important education is. Robert didn't realize how hard his father had to work just to keep everyone alive and in check. As a young, naive, misunderstanding child it is hard to grasp why someone has to live the way they do. The father had to sacrifice many good times for work. Leisure time with the family usually is a must amongst families. Some parents can't afford to give that to their loved ones, due to hard work. Having to work hard can be a result of many things. The father might not have been well educated, could not be given a better job due to ethnicity, etc. Roberts father has endured much more pain than Robert can think of.
Those Winter Sundays Robert Hayden's poem Those Winter Sundays retells a grown man's perspective of his father. ... There are several images in the Robert Hayden poem Those Winter Sundays. ... The poem Those Winter Sundays is written in free verse. The poem is a narrative of the speaker describing winter Sundays and his Father. ... There are also several caesuras in the poem Those Winter Sundays. ...
Response Paper Both Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" and Theodore Roenke's "My Papa's Waltz", exists the theme of family camaraderie in a parent-child context. ... This also shows that this particular family isn't economically adapted therefore the father is required to have such a job that makes him tired at night ("whiskey on your breathe") and physically challenged; ("battered knuckle") The idea in "My Papa's Waltz" about families without economic flexibilities can also be drawn a similarity to "Those Winter Sundays". The aspect of a family st...
"Those Winter Sundays" The poem "My Papa's Waltz," by Theodore Roethke describes the scene of dance between a father and his son. ... Robert Hayden poem, "Those Winter Sundays" uses adult narrator to describe the memory of the child towards his distant father. ... The tone of "My Papa's Waltz" differs from the tone in "Those Winter Sundays". ... On the other hand, the image in "Those Winter Sundays" has chilliness and unaffectionate. ... Relatively, "Those Winter Sundays," has a downhearted memory that the narrator has for his father. ...
Hifzeen Ali Period 3 Filand AP Lit 12 "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden "Other things may change us, but we start and end with family" (Anthony Brandt). ... In Robert Hayden's poem, "The Winter Sundays" the author shows a strong bond between father and his responsibilities to take care of his family. ... To start off, in the first stanza the narrator tells us that his father wakes up early to light a fire in their fireplace in order to feel warm on a chilly winter day. In the first line, the narrator says, "Sundays too" which signifies ...
An Explication of "Those Winter Sundays" "Those Winter Sundays," by Robert Hayden talks about a relationship between a father and son. ... The speaker describes a typical winter Sunday for his father who never had a day off. ... The father awakes early every day of the week to work, and even on Sunday needs to work to keep the house warm. "Sundays too my father got up early- The speaker remembers waking to hear the "cold splintering, breaking." ... Writing "Those Winter Sundays" was Hayden's way of thanking his father for all that he has done. ...
In the poems "Digging," by Seamus Heaney and "Those Winter Sundays," by Robert Hayden, both write about their father in reflective poems about childhood. ... When in "Those Winter Sundays" Hayden speaks of his father he remembers more of his father's anger, "fearing the chronic angers of that house.... Hayden paints more of grim memory as he speaks of sunday morning "I'd wake to the cold, splintering, breaking. ... How some parents would go to work early on sundays with cracked hands just to keep food on the table, and heat to warm the home.Th...
Robert Hayden's poem "Those Winter Sundays" focuses on the story of two people, a child and the child's father. ... In the first stanza, the poem begins on an early Sunday morning with the father's daily, grueling routine. ... Throughout "Those Winter Sundays" Robert Hayden uses things like diction, denotation, imagery, and repetition to further help the narrator convey his childhood feelings towards his father, and his regret to those feelings and attitude in the future, when his father is no longer around....
Robert Hayden's poem "Those Winter Sundays" is shorter but have a similar subject. ... In poem "Those Winter Sundays" has romanticism, which evokes tone of nostalgia for a childhood. ... Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" adult narrator tired to resolved fillings that was hiding from his father. ... The poems "My Papa's Waltz " and "Those Winter Sundays," are similar because they represent father. ...
