Unspoken Love: A Reflection on 'Those Winter Sundays'

1052 Words3 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Poems structures those winter sundays

In “Those Winter Sundays,” a man bring to attention the remembrance of his father, how his father demonstrated love to him through is behavior. Precisely, the speaker recalls that his father wakes up early on Sunday morning to light up the furnace fire and also wake his son up to dress up when the house is a little bit warm. The speaker’s father make it one of his duties to polish his son’s shoe to go to church, teaching his son that he is very interested in his moral upbringing. The word “Chronic angers” in line nine put to mind the pictures of how the speaker’s father is a good and hardworking man. And “Then with cracked hands that ached, from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze” in line three, four and five talks of how …show more content…

The father makes an endeavor to do his duties as a father to his son, even during the vigorous time of the season. The father of the speaker being a good father only wakes up his son only when the room is heated up. Despite the fact that his hand is in bad shape due to the physical work he does during the week, he still wakes up very early to polish the good shoes of his son to go to church. The moral upbringing of his son is very important to him, so he focuses more on his son moral values by teaching him moral manners. However, the father of the speaker was never appreciated for all his hard work, love and …show more content…

The father of the speaker advise him to be wise in making decisions in life, and that he can live his life wisely in all manners of life. The father want the best out of his son and advice his son to live life to the fullest, as if each one may be his last one. The poem tell us that there is consequences in every decision you make in life. While “Those Winter Sundays” is the regret a son pass through for been ignorant of his father sacrifice for him to live a better

Show More
Related

  • Breece D 'J Pancake's Short Story First Day Of Winter'

    940 Words  | 2 Pages

    In "First Day of Winter," by Breece D’J Pancake stories, “First Day of Winter” is the twelfth and the last selection of them. The story is about the edgy circumstances of a West Virginia farmer called Hollis. A single man as yet still living on the farm of his family, Hollis battles to make ends meet as he watches over his weak parents. His decrepit mother declines to bathe, "her mind half gone from blood too thick in her veins;" on the other hand, his dad, "now coughing and blind," is "bent with age, with crying" (163, 168). The only sibling of Hollis, Jake, has left the homestead, wedded, fathered two youngsters and turn into a minister. Due to this Hollis’s parents hover over him and persistently remind him that his sibling "has done fine

    Read More

  • Poets and Their Fathers: Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden

    1383 Words  | 3 Pages

    “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden, “My Father as a Guitar” by Martin Espada, and “Digging” by Seamus Heaney are three poems that look into the past of the authors and dig up memories of the authors fathers. The poems contain similar conflicts, settings, and themes that are essential in helping the reader understand the heartfelt feelings the authors have for their fathers. With the authors of the three poems all living the gust of their life in the 1900’s, their biographical will be similar and easier to connect with each other.

    Read More

  • Philip Levine and Robert Hayden: What Work is? Those Winter Sundays

    1448 Words  | 3 Pages

    If I were asked who the most precious people in my life are, I would undoubtedly answer: my family. They were the people whom I could lean on to matter what happens. Nonetheless, after overhearing my mother demanded a divorce, I could not love her as much as how I loved her once because she had crushed my belief on how perfect life was when I had a family. I felt as if she did not love me anymore. Poets like Philip Levine and Robert Hayden understand this feeling and depict it in their poems “What Work Is” and “Those Winter Sundays.” These poems convey how it feels like to not feel love from the family that should have loved us more than anything in the world. Yet, they also convey the reconciliation that these family members finally reach because the speakers can eventually see love, the fundamental component of every family in the world, which is always presence, indeed. Just like I finally comprehended the reason behind my mother’s decision was to protect me from living in poverty after my father lost his job.

    Read More

  • An Analysis Of Sedaris's Story Of 'Let It Snow'

    1116 Words  | 3 Pages

    In Binghamton, New York, snow fell for the first time in years that resulted in Sedaris and his siblings to have school canceled over five days (Faigley 89). Over their five-day vacation from school, things around the house started to get complicated. After a long day of sledding, Sedaris observes his mother pulling the drapes shut when the siblings were yelling to, “Open the door!” (Faigley 89). One thought that came to Sedaris’s mind after trying endlessly to get back inside the house was to have someone get hit by a car (Faigley 90). Sedaris’s mother was an alcoholic, and her problem affected him and his siblings greatly. The reader will explain why he and his siblings did what they did to get their mother’s attention. Sedaris’s tone, word choice, and by the way he organized his essay of “Let It Snow,” made it easy to connect with the reader on many levels.

    Read More

  • The Contributions of “Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl” to American Literature

    1486 Words  | 3 Pages

    In the nineteenth century, following the devastating American Civil War, author John Greenleaf Whittier wrote a lengthy poem designed to solve both personal and national problems. Whittier hoped that his poetry could stitch together the festering wounds left by the Civil War. While composing his work, Whittier realized that a reminder of good times from the past would assist his fragile country in its reconstruction; his poem “Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl” became the vehicle through which he achieved this goal. In particular, Whittier focuses in “Snow-Bound” on addressing his life in context, as well as on the issue of how the lessons of his youth apply to his country. He describes his early life, the issues of his family and memories, the contributions of nature to his literature, and, finally, his hope for the poem’s readers, which causes a fascinating response. Together, these attributes forever molded the United States as a nation.

    Read More

  • Those Winter Sundays

    851 Words  | 2 Pages

    "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden is a poem about a how the author is recalling how his father would wake up early on Sundays, a day which is usually a reserved as a day of rest by many, to fix a fire for his family. The mood of this poem is a bit sad. It portrays a father, who deeply cares for his family but doesn't seem to show it by emotions, words, or touching. It also describes a home that isn't very warm in feelings as well as the title" Those Winter Sundays" The author describes the father as being a hard worker, in the line "…with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday…", but still even on Sundays--the day of rest, the father works at home to make sure the house is warm for his family. The "blueblack cold described in the poem is now warmed by a father's love. This poem describes the author reminiscing what did not seem obvious at the time, the great love of his father, and the author's regretting to thank his father for all that he did.

    Read More

  • A Father's Unfailing Prescence

    1009 Words  | 3 Pages

    The poem “Those Winter Sundays” displays a past relationship between a child and his father. Hayden makes use of past tense phrases such as “I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking” (6) to show the readers that the child is remembering certain events that took place in the past. Although the child’s father did not openly express his love towards him when he was growing up, the child now feels a great amount of guilt for never thanking his father for all the things he actually did for him and his family. This poem proves that love can come in more than one form, and it is not always a completely obvious act.

    Read More

  • summary

    662 Words  | 2 Pages

    The poem “Snapping Beans” by Lisa Parker is about a speaker and her grandmother. The girl is adjusting to college life, but she is having problems and cannot tell her grandmother; instead, she tells her, “School is fine”. She revels her inner thoughts in order for the reader to determine she is depressed and heart wrenched. It is hard for her to tell her religious grandmother about her friends writing about “sex, about alcoholism, about Buddha”. At the end Parker writes, “It’s funny how things blow loose like that.” This is a comparison to a college student and how they have to go away from their family and learn how to live on their own. Moreover, the poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden is about a father and a son relationship. His father wakes up every Sunday morning to light fireplaces to warm up their home and nobody thanks him for doing this. “Sundays” in the title evocate more feelings than the other days of the week do. Sundays may be pleasant family days at home or dull and depres...

    Read More

  • A Literary Analysis Of 'A Story' By Li-Young Lee

    1200 Words  | 3 Pages

    The poem is written in the father’s point of view; this gives insight of the father’s character and

    Read More

  • Ballads of Remembrance by Robert Hayden

    559 Words  | 2 Pages

    The lack of verbal communication between his father and himself can be seen in his poem "Those Winter Sundays." The overall impression of the poem is that love can be communicated in other ways than through words; it can be communicated through everyday, mundane actions. For example, in the poem, the father awakens on "Sundays too" to warm the house with a fire and polish his sons shoes. There is a sense of coldness in the beginning of the poem through the lines:

    Read More

  • My Papa's Waltz And The Ballad Of Birmingham Family Bonds

    1365 Words  | 3 Pages

    Family bonds are very important which can determine the ability for a family to get along. They can be between a mother and son, a father and son, or even a whole entire family itself. To some people anything can happen between them and their family relationship and they will get over it, but to others they may hold resentment. Throughout the poems Those Winter Sundays, My Papa’s Waltz, and The Ballad of Birmingham family bonds are tested greatly. In Those Winter Sundays the relationship being shown is between the father and son, with the way the son treats his father. My Papa’s Waltz shows the relationship between a father and son as well, but the son is being beaten by his father. In The Ballad of Birmingham the relationship shown is between

    Read More

  • Analysis of Poems by Theodore Roethke and Robert Hayden

    974 Words  | 2 Pages

    While most of us think back to memories of our childhood and our relationships with our parents, we all have what he would call defining moments in our views of motherhood or fatherhood. It is clearly evident that both Theodore Roethke and Robert Hayden have much to say about the roles of fathers in their two poems as well. While the relationships with their fathers differ somewhat, both men are thinking back to a defining moment in their childhood and remembering it with a poem. "My Papa's Waltz" and "Those Winter Sundays" both give the reader a snapshot view of one defining moment in their childhood, and these moments speak about the way these children view their fathers. Told now years later, they understand even more about these moments.

    Read More

  • Snow In Midsummer Feminist Analysis

    950 Words  | 2 Pages

    Snow in Midsummer: A Historical Work of Medieval Feminism In a time period when women were not at all fairly represented, Guan Hanqing’s Snow in Midsummer provides a platform well ahead of its time. His play shed light on themes such as marriage, injustice and a sense of duty. This created an overarching social commentary on not only the oppression of a specific gender, but also the journey for religious redemption. The primarily stable, but sometimes disruptive Yuan Dynasty provided the atmosphere needed not only to shape Snow in Midsummer to it’s full potential, but for also all Yuan Dynasty theatre to grow and blossom to what it is admired for today.

    Read More

  • Snow Falling In Spring: The Cultural Revolution

    852 Words  | 2 Pages

    The argument Ms. Li proposed is most certainly backed up very well by her life experiences and story. The Cultural Revolution tore her family apart; her dad was forced into a labour camp and her mother and grandmother were said to be against Chairman Mao. The Revolution played a huge role in Li’s life, shaping her into the person she has become today. It gave her the incentive to study as hard as she did, witness the hardships of others as well as experience her own. The Revolution was a driving force behind her character, as well as many other people in China, as clearly testified by the author throughout the reading.

    Read More

  • Diction In Those Winter Sundays By Robert Hayden

    1940 Words  | 4 Pages

    Many writers use powerful words to portray powerful messages. Whether a writer’s choice of diction is cheerful, bitter, or in Robert Hayden’s case in his poem “Those Winter Sundays,” dismal and painful, it is the diction that formulates the tone of the piece. It is the diction which Hayden so properly places that allows us to read the poem and picture the cold tension of his foster home, and envision the barren home where his poem’s inspiration comes from. Hayden’s tumultuous childhood, along with the unorthodox relationships with his biological parents and foster parents help him to create the strong diction that permeates the dismal tone of “Those Winter Sundays.” Hayden’s ability to both overcome his tribulations and generate enough courage

    Read More

More about Unspoken Love: A Reflection on 'Those Winter Sundays'

Open Document