The poem "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden is very interesting because of the emotions the poem expresses. Hayden captures love as a possible theme in this poem, a unspoken love that could not be expressed in any language, the love between a father and his son. Rhythm is created in the placement of certain words and punctuation. The sentences in the center of the poem all end in commas, carrying over to the next line which creates suspense.
             The poem "Those Winter Sundays" has a structure like many other poems. It is written in the first person narration for example Hayden uses "I'd wake" and "I know". The poem has three stanzas. The first stanza consists of five lines followed by the second containing four lines and like the first stanza the last has five lines. Although the poem does not seem to rhyme, it has a rhythm of its own. In this poem, Robert Hayden writes about his relationship with his father as a young child. Hayden captures that the young child needed love from a unaffectionate father, but the child at the same time didn't show love to him. In the first stanza you could see the image Hayden wants to get across. "Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold" paints a vivid picture. These are possible symbols of death and coldness. Hayden continues to describe his father by saying "cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather." Hayden is portraying a man who is a hard worker and still wakes up before everyone else to warm up the rooms for his love ones.
             Hayden uses specific detail to show that the father cared; for example, the way the father woke up before him to light the fire and polish his shoes, the father shows his love in the simple acts he does. The child doesn't show love because he believes that his father wasn't showing love, but what
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