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A 5 page paper which examines parent/child responsibilities in Robert Hayden’s poem Those Winter Sundays. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the narrators father as the narrator looks back to when he was a child and his father obviously worked far harder than the boy/narrator had known at the time. The
following paper examines the parent/child responsibilities as presented in Haydens poem The paper argues that the child may well not possess any responsibilities to the parent as presented in this
poem. Parent/Child Responsibilities: Haydens Those Winter Sundays In Haydens poem the narrator, now an adult, recalls times when his father would "with cracked hands that ached/ from labor
in the weekday weather made/ banked fires blaze" and how "No one ever thanked him" (Hayden 3-5, 5). This clearly presents the narrators look into the past when they were
a child and when they did not realize the sacrifices made by the father. It is a poem that speaks of anger and of cold and in this one can
easily infer that there are problems in the household. One critic presents what one could see as a common argument concerning this poem: "Robert Haydens poem Those Winter Sundays portrays
a stark childhood devoid of affection. Despite the fathers attention to physical comforts there is a psychological barrenness that is disconcerting. Failure to mention any other family members raises questions
about the circumstances of the household. An atmosphere of bitterness with bouts of anger is described. The recollection suggests an understanding that the father must have been prompted by affection,
however, the perception is unable to redefine the unhappy memory" (Gallagher 245). In this presumption one sees that the responsibility of the father is clearly not being met for
he is not giving his child affection. This leads to an environment that is angry and bitter which is the way many would read this poem for it does truly
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