Language And Imagery In Robert Hayden's Those Winter Sundays

Robert Hayden’s language and imagery in his poem “Those Winter Sundays” reveal the speaker’s tone for his childhood indifference to his father’s subtle love as well as his adult admiration for his father’s sacrifice. The speaker, an adult now, recognizes the indifference that was between him and his father throughout his childhood. He now regrets the times when his father worked hard to provide for the family, but never was thanked. The father went through everyday life, “laboring on the weekdays,” (4) and “driving out the cold,” (11) every Sunday. Suffering from the hardships of the weekly workload, the father still awoke on “Sundays too” (1) to create a living environment for his child. However, the speaker, the child, did not pay attention