Robert Hayden in "Those Winter Sunday" focus on the relationship between father and child and all the mixed feelings that come with it: love, admiration, fear, misunderstanding, and even hate. He couldn't understand these feeling until he got older, but it was too late for him to tell his father what he learned and how much he is thankful and grateful for his father's sacrifices, hard work, care, and for all the cold Sunday mornings " Those Winter Sundays" when he had to wake up earlier than the rest to worm the house for them.
With cold weather and cold memory the speaker goes back from the present as an adult to his childhood, using a formal diction when he describe the old days with all the details, to indicate the personal attached in the poem and the extent of contact to the speaker and his past. the speaker uses vivid images to portray his father in the poem as a powerful father as he said also " Who had driven out the cold" (11) as if his father forced the cold to leave "hear the cold splintering, breaking (6)" who challenges the harsh "blueblack cold" (2) for his family with "cracked hands" (3). But then with words full of remorse "No one ever thanked him" (5) he gets back to hint that his father does not get the right appreciation for his hard work in the past and not in the present, too. Again, with shy words the speaker describes his childhood and how his father made this life warm and better for him, life full with warmth "when the rooms were worm, he'd call" (7), and Full of reassurance "slowly I would rise and dress" (8), then he continues to describe this life, but suddenly with angry voice" fearing the chronic angers of that house" (9) s a child who didn't know what was happening but he could feel the anger in his home, as if he is lost between the two images in his mind one as child fried of the anger in his home. Then again he is back to the