... 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 ... 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 ... can get out ...

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... poem deals with affectionate memories of the narrator and his father. The narrator describes a celebration of the father and with his child by dancing across the kitchen floor, where the child had a blast dancing with his father. Robert Hayden poem, "Those Winter Sundays" uses adult narrator to describe the memory of the child towards his distant father. The father used to wake ... father made sure that the things the child needs are in place, but the child didn't share love and attention from his father. Apparently the works of Theodore Roethke and Robert Hayden have certain similariti...

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Poems of Fathers It has become extremely apparent after reading and listening to "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke and "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden that both of these poems have been written about hard working fathers. After looking at the years these poems were published I"d have to say that it's not kind of a ... both of these authors did a good job with these poems. Although Roethke did not go into as much detail as Hayden did on his poem they both got their points across. I think that both of the poems were organized well. I liked the language of Roethke's poem more that I...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... he knows no better than to do what he is told, and as a child he believes it can only end in reward. "The Whipping" is a poem by Robert Hayden that illustrates a neighbor watching a boy across the street being beaten again. He pleads for mercy from his mother who still chases after his and beats him with a stick until it breaks. Watching the ... ...

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... is unknown and not spoken of . The two are the only people in "Pretty How Town" that can feel love, but they speak of it. In "Those Winter Sundays", by Robert Hayden, Hayden captures love as one possible theme. Not love as in romance or beauty, but an unmentioned love that can never be spoken in any language; the loves between ... a father and his son. In the first stanza the reader automatically can paint a picture in his or her own head a possible image Hayden wants to get across. For example, "Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold" paints a v...

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• Grade Level: High School