Like my treatment of the first poem and author Theodore Roethke , I delved deeper in to the background of Robert Hayden and learned that he was raised as an adoptive son of a laborer and sternly devout Baptist , William Hayden . Since he has been separated from his father before birth , it is assumed that the father he is referring to in this poem is that of his adoptive father , William Hayden . Part 3 : A Comparative thematic Analysis of the Two...











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