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LINE 1Sunday is traditionally a day of rest, so
Those Winter Sundays most people will continue a while longer
in bed to rest.
Robert Hayden
‘too’ reveals that the persona was up
Those Winter Sundays early on all the other days of the week.
Robert Hayden was an American poet,
Robert Hayden
essayist and educator.
LINE 2
He served as Consultant in Poetry to the 1. Sundays too my father got up early
Tactical imagery & idiomatic expression:
Library of Congress from 1976 to 1978, a 2. and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
‘beaten black and blue’
role today known as US poet Laureate. 3. then with his cracked hands that ached
Reveals the weather condition.
He was the first African – American 4. from labor in the weekday weather made
winter to hold the office. 5. banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
LINE 5
6. I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking, His dependants responded with ingratitude.
Themes:
7. When the rooms were warm, he'd call • Silent treatment
Father – son relationship.
• disrespect
8. and slowly I would rise and dress,
Dutiful father
Parental responsibility LINE 6: Hayden gets out of bed in the
9. fearing the chronic angers of that house,
second stanza. This reveals that he woke up
10. Speaking indifferently to him a great while after his father.
LINE 5
11. who had driven out the cold The house was so frigid that Hayden could
‘blaze’: the natural heat and the warmth ‘hear’ the cold not only feel it.
12. and polished my good shoes as well.
and dedication of the persona, was
clearly expressed for everyone to see. 13. What did I know, what did I know ‘splintering’: suggests that the cold broke in
14. of love's austere and lonely offices? small bits, from the fringes.
‘breaking’: suggests that it began to break in
larger and more sizeable chucks as the heat
spread in the house.
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