"Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden Flashcards

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stanza one

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  • “too” illustrates that his father gets up everyday as a sacrifice for his family
  • “blueblack cold” creates imagery of the intense cold his father experiences from waking up before everyone else
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stanza two

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  • “splintering, breaking” creates imagery of the intense cold
  • “chronic” shows the persistent tension in the relationship between the father and son
  • “slowly” while the father gets up early to sacrifice for his family, this work plays against that and shows that the son wakes up at his own pace
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stanza three

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  • “indifferently” shows the lack of feeling that the son felt for the father, regardless of the lvoe the father felt for the son
  • “polishes my good shoes” shows the sacrifice of the father for the son
  • “austere” and “lonely” shows that the son did not understand the fathers strict routine which made the son feel lonely
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tone

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is regretful because he does not recognize his father’s love

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speaker’s father

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sacrificial

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what words does hayden use to express how often his father worked

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sundays too; labor in the weekday

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answers

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  • the home had been a place of tension for a long time
  • possibly because “no one ever thanked him” and the reader spoke “indifferently to him”
  • he wanted to emphasize the greatness of the father’s efforts to warm the house
  • it was a job he performed everyday of the week outside
  • assonance (repetition of the a sound in words)
  • Sundays were supposed to be his day off, yet he still worked
  • the monotony of the father’s life, working week after week
  • because he feared the “chronic angers of that house”
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