Blog # 8 - Poems

I chose the poem "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden. Even though it is a short poem every line has means and is very detailed just within the few sentences. The theme of this poem by Hadyen is about a young boy that truely did not apppreciate what his father did as the main contributor in the family and the son never ever thanked him for the things the father did. You could tell the son was a little afraid of his father and his figure. His father was not the most compassionate guy in the world. His father was more of a hard and rough guy. You can tell that the boy does not have a strong relationship with his father because his father was always busy due to him doing so much work to keep the family warm, fed, and clothed. Because of the lack of contact with his father it really affected the son in a negative way. The bond between the son and the father was not present. And that lack of communication between the son and father shows that the son did not feel fully grown and understand what his father is going through until he actually has to go through it. It takes the son to experience things for himself and be a father to make things different and have a relationship with his kids. But if he would have had a close relationship he would have been able to express his gratefulness and he can understand that his father tough love is just his love in a manly way.