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Steele 1
Charisma Steele
Professor Abbott
ENGL 1102
Closing Reading Essay
10 September 2017
A Loving Child with a Strong Father
Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays” is about a man lacking
appreciation for the hard work
and dedication that he does on a day to day basis for his job, but
his child loves and appreciates
him for all of the hard work that he does. The poem was from a
child’s point of view and the
theme of Those Winter Sundays is created through the stream of
consciousness, conflicts,
symbolism, and a flat/ static relationship of the poem. The
father rises early on Sundays after a
tense week of work, it seems as though no one appreciates him.
Considering that the father
works all the time the father might not show that he cares
because he is not emotionally intact.
However, getting up early to attend work shows that he cares
because he is doing what he has to
do to take care of the house. “Sundays to my father got up early.
No one ever thanked him”
(line1 & 5). This line represents a loving child who watches
their father despises on getting up
every Sunday to go to work and never receives a thank you for
all of the hard work that he has
done.
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The father does not express his emotions toward his child in
such a way that the child could
understand nevertheless the father was motivated to rise early to
go to work through the harsh
winters to express his love for his child; “Out his clothes on in
the blue black cold, / then with
cracked hands that ached/ from labor in the weekday.” (2-4).In
the poem, Those Winter Sundays
the “blue, black and cold” represented how cold the winter was.
It was so colds in the winter that
while getting dressed the father was turning blue. There is
numbness from frost bites, which
turns the father toes black if they are freezing cold. In the
winter there are also no colors, no
flowers blooming or rarely any nature. It’s just literally blue
and black; black from the streets Ice
cold water that has frozen over the winter season.
The child respectfully loves and appreciates her father, even if
he does not recognize the love
considering how busy and upset he was; “When the rooms were
warm, / he’d call, and slowly I
would rise and dress, / fearing the chronic anger of that house”.
Line (7-9). This line expresses
the child’s frightened emotions. The child took into
consideration that the father woke up early in
the cold while getting ready for work. While taking the father
waking up early in the cold into
consideration the child did not want to get up in such a way that
would have angered the father
even more from what he already was from getting up early.
Nevertheless “when the room was
warm” (Line 7) the father expressed his love for the child by
waking the child when the house
was warm so that the child could get dressed and ready.
Concluding the unrecognized relationship between the father
and child; both the child and the
father loved each other. “Speaking indifferently to him” (line
10). They just expressed their love
for one another in a different way. Lastly, the last line of the
poem “Love’s austere” (line 14)
Steele 3
recognizes how much the child appreciates how hard the father
works, and that the child would
not let the father working so much go without being unnoticed
even though no one thanked him.
Nonetheless, the father took care of his child and house through
the rough times and that’s how
he showed his love for the child even though he was a thankless
potent father.
Steele 4
Works cited
Hayden, R. (2017, June 07). Those Winter Sundays. Retrieved
September 08, 2017, from
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/those-winter-sundays
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  • 1. Steele 1 Charisma Steele Professor Abbott ENGL 1102 Closing Reading Essay 10 September 2017 A Loving Child with a Strong Father Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays” is about a man lacking appreciation for the hard work and dedication that he does on a day to day basis for his job, but his child loves and appreciates him for all of the hard work that he does. The poem was from a child’s point of view and the theme of Those Winter Sundays is created through the stream of consciousness, conflicts, symbolism, and a flat/ static relationship of the poem. The
  • 2. father rises early on Sundays after a tense week of work, it seems as though no one appreciates him. Considering that the father works all the time the father might not show that he cares because he is not emotionally intact. However, getting up early to attend work shows that he cares because he is doing what he has to do to take care of the house. “Sundays to my father got up early. No one ever thanked him” (line1 & 5). This line represents a loving child who watches their father despises on getting up every Sunday to go to work and never receives a thank you for all of the hard work that he has done. Steele 2 The father does not express his emotions toward his child in such a way that the child could understand nevertheless the father was motivated to rise early to go to work through the harsh
  • 3. winters to express his love for his child; “Out his clothes on in the blue black cold, / then with cracked hands that ached/ from labor in the weekday.” (2-4).In the poem, Those Winter Sundays the “blue, black and cold” represented how cold the winter was. It was so colds in the winter that while getting dressed the father was turning blue. There is numbness from frost bites, which turns the father toes black if they are freezing cold. In the winter there are also no colors, no flowers blooming or rarely any nature. It’s just literally blue and black; black from the streets Ice cold water that has frozen over the winter season. The child respectfully loves and appreciates her father, even if he does not recognize the love considering how busy and upset he was; “When the rooms were warm, / he’d call, and slowly I would rise and dress, / fearing the chronic anger of that house”. Line (7-9). This line expresses the child’s frightened emotions. The child took into consideration that the father woke up early in the cold while getting ready for work. While taking the father waking up early in the cold into
  • 4. consideration the child did not want to get up in such a way that would have angered the father even more from what he already was from getting up early. Nevertheless “when the room was warm” (Line 7) the father expressed his love for the child by waking the child when the house was warm so that the child could get dressed and ready. Concluding the unrecognized relationship between the father and child; both the child and the father loved each other. “Speaking indifferently to him” (line 10). They just expressed their love for one another in a different way. Lastly, the last line of the poem “Love’s austere” (line 14) Steele 3 recognizes how much the child appreciates how hard the father works, and that the child would not let the father working so much go without being unnoticed even though no one thanked him. Nonetheless, the father took care of his child and house through the rough times and that’s how
  • 5. he showed his love for the child even though he was a thankless potent father. Steele 4 Works cited Hayden, R. (2017, June 07). Those Winter Sundays. Retrieved September 08, 2017, from https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/those-winter-sundays