¡§ Poetry is full of surprises ¡K Even poems on 'predictable¡ subjects can surprise us with unpredicated attitudes, unusual events, or a sudden twist ' ( Beaty and Hunter 620 ) . This is one of the most important natures of poetry. The poem 'Those Winter Sundays¡ is really a good example as its ending is very surprising --- from neglecting and fearing of father at the beginning to appreciating him in the end. Readers need to read to the end so as to know the result.
             The poem'Those Winter Sundays¡ was written by the first-person perspective. In the first stanza of the poem , the speaker first introduced his father by describing that his father always got up very early in winter Sundays. Then, his father made fire blaze so as to make the house warm for him in the cold winter. However, he didn¡t thank his father. In the second stanza, the speaker woke up then and heard the sounds of the wood in the fire. He described the sounds as splintering and breaking. Then, when the rooms were warm enough, his father would call him to wake up. Although the winter was very cold, the speaker still got up and dressed as he was afraid that his father would become angry. In the last stanza, the speaker spoke and responded to his father indifferently although his father had done so many things for him --- made the house warm, polished his shoes. In the last two lines, the speaker regretted as his father felt lonely and he hadn¡t known that love could be expressed in such simple way like his father did.
             The poem 'Those Winter Sundays¡ was written by Robert Hayden in 1966. He was born in 1913 and so he wrote this poem when he was in middle age. Actually, his childhood was quite bad as his parents separated before he was born and he didn¡t¡ realize how much his father loved him until he was an adult.
             In the poem, we can know the parent-child relationship by the use of words or phrases. For example, ¡
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