Those Winter Sundays By Robert Hayden

“Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden looks like a simple poem, but when the reader dives deeper into the words he or she can easily see the theme of this poem is something much deeper and more personally connected to the speaker’s feelings and thoughts. The speaker is an adult, most likely a man, looking back on his childhood. As he remembers the events that took place inside his home with his family, he begins to realize how much his father did for not only himself, but his family. As an adult, the man realizes how hard and unselfishly his father worked to provide for the family; but as the speaker tells of his father’s endeavors he realizes that his actions as child were unappreciative of his father’s hard. The theme of Hayden’s poem is