Those+Winter+Sundays+*

Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
 * Those Winter Sundays**

I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices?

- The environment of the home is deeply ingrained in the speaker's memory - Hayden incorporates a 'too' in the middle of the first statement, which is abnormal because 'too' is usually seen at the end of the sentence. Emphasizes that his father had to work on Sundays. - A personal story about the strained relationship between a father and a son. - The speaker has a guilty tone throughout the poem, because he is looking back at his memories with his father, which helps him realize the love his father was trying to express. - The mood of the poem is very quiet and the setting is imagined to be very still by the audience. Instead, the poet focuses on the emotions of both the father and the son (speaker). - Lesson: actions speak louder than words. The love of the father was expressed through his actions, which the speaker hadn't realized until now.
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