ROBERT hAYDEN

Literary Analysis of Robert Hayden 's Those Winter Sundays

A father 's special , often unappreciated love is the theme of Those Winter Sundays ' by Robert Hayden . It is a simple narrative that is as plain as its plot . The son as the narrator speaks out his feelings and thoughts about winter Sundays when everyone in the family can sleep late and snuggle under the warm covers . Everyone does exactly that , except his father , who he says Sundays too my father got up early

Hayden used imagery to describe the father 's cracked hands

' and the condition of the room after his father has made banked fires blaze The son would wake and hear the cold splintering , breaking ' His language appeals to the readers ' senses to get a good picture of the poem 's setting . Hayden 's winter setting helped in creating the mood of coldness in the poem . It is also suggestive of the son 's coldness towards the father when he spoke indifferently to him ' Hayden used direct statements like No one ever thanked him ' to emphasize the point he would like to get across the readers , that the efforts of the father go unappreciated . He used cold ' several times to create the recurring image of the absence of warmth or comfort in the attitude towards the father . The tone of the poem is emotional when the son acknowledges the things his father does for him like driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well ' Hayden...