Those Winter Sundays By Robert Hayden

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Ingratitude is a theme shown in the poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden through imagery and the tone of the author. The speaker in the poem, a now older man, is looking back at his early life and realizing that he did not have gratitude towards what his father did for him and his family. Throughout the poem, a son feels sorry that he did not give more thanks to his father, which you can see through vivid imagery. When the son states “When the rooms were warm, he’d call, / and slowly I would rise and dress,” in your mind you can see those actions (2.2-3). This excerpt also shows the love that the father had for his family, by only walking them up when the house was a warm, comfortable temperature for his family on a cold winter Sunday.

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