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. Both literary works shows examples of parent-child relationship that provides the readers for different interpretations. Both poems convey to a thesis that though a person (a child in this case) can feel lonely or going through a hard time, he or she can always enjoy the love, company and the hardworking support from their family. In these scenarios, the speakers' respective fathers. .
In "My Papa's Waltz by Robert Hayden, the speaker of the poem is a young boy who is reminiscing on the times spent with his father. When readers first read through the poem, different interpretations can be drawn, some readers immediately get the impression that the father is beating his child unemotionally while others interoperates the situation has just a father dancing with his son and just having a fun time, almost to a family-ritual degree. Readers might conclude that child-abuse is present through lines 10 and 13, "The hand.was battered on one knuckle, my right ear scraped a buckle. You beat time on my head." But in reality, the father is just having a good time with his son. In fact the line "the hand. Was battered on one knuckle" actually refers to the physical deterioration of his hands from the grunt work that he does. 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 struggling economically in "Those Winter Sundays" can be seen in the first two lines of the poem when the speaker says "Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold.
Those Winter Sundays Robert Hayden's poem Those Winter Sundays retells a grown man's perspective of his father. ... He has realized now what his Father did for his family all those Sundays. There are several images in the Robert Hayden poem Those Winter Sundays. ... The poem Those Winter Sundays is written in free verse. ... There are also several caesuras in the poem Those Winter Sundays. ...
"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. ... "Sundays too my father got up early- The speaker remembers waking to hear the "cold splintering, breaking." ... The boy mistook those actions as something other than love for him, when in reality the harshness towards the son was done out of love. ... 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. ... We don't know about these things as children, but we remember later in life and those poems are good examples. ...
"Those Winter Sundays" is a poem penned by Robert Hayden first appeared in his book A Ballad of Remembrance in 1962 though some sources indicate that it was first published in 1966 in the book titled Collected Poems of Robert Hayden (poets.org, n.d., para. 3). ... Surface Level Details This poem depicts the early events of a cold Sunday morning as described from a child's perspective. ... Additionally, the speaker uses this to express to us that his relationship with his father was just like the description of the Sunday morning, cold on the outside but warm in the inside. ....
