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    A Study Guide for Robert E. Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays"
    A Study Guide for Robert E. Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays"
    A Study Guide for Robert E. Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays"
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    A Study Guide for Robert E. Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays"

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    A Study Guide for Robert E. Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 19, 2016
    ISBN9781535841009
    A Study Guide for Robert E. Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays"

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      A Study Guide for Robert E. Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" - Gale

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      Those Winter Sundays

      Robert Hayden

      1962

      Introduction

      Robert Hayden possessed amazing skill with Ianguage and the structure of the poem. Though he is perhaps best known for his poems that explore and express the African-American experience, from the days of slavery, to the Civil War, to that of his own time, poems like Middle Passage, or The Ballad of Nat Turner, he also wrote shorter, arguably more lyric poems that capture personal or religious moments. Those Winter Sundays, a poem about a son remembering his father, is an excellent example of one of these shorter poems as it displays Hayden’s incredible control of language and intricate understanding of human experience. It is clear that there was distance between them and little communication or even warmth. It is discovered though, in recollection, that love actually was present. It was just communicated subtly in the father’s effort, specifically by building fires in the early morning that dr[ove] out the cold. The poem seems to be a lament of the fact that the son, who at the time could not perceive such subtle expressions of love, never returned them. Though subjects and speakers of poems do not necessarily correlate with the poet who writes them, it is interesting to note that Hayden was not actually raised by his real mother and father, but by their neighbors to whom he was given at the age of eighteen

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