Thos winter Sundays
Growing up in New England one knows the "true" meaning of winter. In Robert Hayden's poem "Those Winter Sundays," he uses many techniques to get the point of coldness across and also the point about how the speaker viewed his father. The best technique that is used in the poem is imagery. Without getting lost in the great use of imagery in the poem, one cannot forget the true meaning that Hayden is portraying, the imagery can help find the meaning though. The lesson in the poem is that the father made many sacrifices for his family, at the same time the speaker doesn't realize the sacrifices until he himself becomes an adult. The father in Hayden's poem made many sacrifices for his family. The first sacrifice is seen in the poem's first line, "Sundays too my father got up early" (10). This shows that the father got up early on his only day off to get the house warm for his family. The word "too" from the first line tells the reader that the father got up early every other day of the week for work. The next sacrifice the father makes is that not only does he get up early he gets up in the cold, " [the father] put his clothes on in the blueblack cold" (10). Getting up early his a hard thing in
No one wants to get up out of bed and be cold. After reading that line you have to give credit to the father. Getting up in the cold is hard enough, but then trying to function and move around is even harder, " and slowly I would rise and dress" (10). No one ever told the father that he had to do this, he just wanted to. The speaker lays in his bed all comfortable and warm, everyone can relate to that. Even though the speaker never went outside too actually experience the extreme coldness he knows how cold it is form laying in his bed and now appreciates his father for doing what he did. Instead of helping his father to warm the house, the speaker just stays in bed. The only person that did it, was the father, he made the sacrifice to freeze and warm the house. The image of the "cracked hands" is a sacrifice enough, never mind how they got cracked. The father definately puts his family first and does everything for them. Knowing this the father in the poem could be considered a hero. The father maybe worked construction or some other hard manual labor job and did these jobs so that he can make money to support his family. Hayden knows exactly how a winter morning is supposed to be described. Instead of sleeping in his warm bed the father gets up and works in "the blueblack cold" (10).
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