Those Winter Sundays
Poetry and love have been continuously linked side by side for generations of generations. The greatest poems in the world contain this famous theme of love. Love is a universal symbol of lust, forgiveness, happiness and at times hatred. The poem "Anyone Lived In A Pretty How Town" by E.E. Cummings is a poem based on two people who live in a town where love is unknown and not spoken of . The two are the only people in "Pretty How Town" that can feel love, but they speak of it. In "Those Winter Sundays", by Robert Hayden, Hayden captures love as one possible theme. Not love as in romance or beauty, but an unmentioned love that can never be spoken in any language; the loves between a father and his son. In the first stanza the reader automatically can paint a picture in his or her own head a possible image Hayden wants to get across. For example, "Sundays
Thus a possible theme of this poem is love that is unmentioned. "Father" does not need to hear I love you or thanks, he can feel it in the atmosphere around him. The narrator says, "I would rise and dress fearing the chronic angers" (9). Hayden continues to describe "father's" aching hands from labor in the weekday weather (3). This explains why the narrator says "Sundays too my father got up early", a fisherman has to get early to beat out any other competitors (1-2). In the final stanza the narrator remembers how his father showed his love threw his actions,". Early in the morning when the sky is still a majestic dark blue color the ocean appears to be a black abyss. Blue and black can both be possible symbols of death and coldness or possibly water to the reader. The narrator now sees how "father" expressed his love to the family. I believe "father" wants the family to get up early to get chores out of the way early. The line the starts the theme of the poem is the last line of the first stanza; "no one ever thanked him" (5).
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