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A 4 page paper which argues for the existence of childhood ignorance as seen in Robert Hayden’s poem Those Winter Sundays. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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for the things he did. It is a poem that brings to mind the fact that children are often incredibly ignorant about who their parents are and what their parents
do for them. The following paper argues that this perspective, the perspective that children are essentially ignorant about such things, is very real and true. Those Winter Sundays
In Haydens poem he notes how his father would get up early in the morning and start a fire for the family, even
though he had "cracked hands that ached/ from labor in the weekday weather" and yet "No one ever thanked him" (Hayden 3-4, 5). When he speaks that no one thanked
this man, his father, he speaks as a child for he may well have been thanked by his mother or a sibling. It is only noting that he did not
thank his father for such acts. He also speaks of how he would be all but "indifferently" to his father and in this one sees that the narrator did not
care and did not think of his father (Hayden 10). He only recognizes the truth as an adult, stating, "What did I know, what did I know/ of loves austere
and lonely offices?" (Hayden 13-14). All of this speaks of a childs ignorance and how children are simply children, ignorant of the
pain and suffering of others, especially their parents. One author notes, in this sort of reality, how "Only as children progress through the stages of cognitive development do they become
capable of making this distinction", that distinction between experiences of self and others (Davis 6). And, in all honesty, people need only examine their own childhood and realize that it
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