Make a list of at least 5 possibilities and Choose 3 of the 5 and write a brief paragraph for each. PLEASE FOLLOW DIRECTIONS Below in the attached file is the essay I wrote about if one needs to revert back.I wrote about Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sun

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Charisma Steele

Professor Abbott

ENGL 1102

Closing Reading Essay

10 September 2017

A Loving Child with a Strong Father

Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays” is about a man lacking appreciation for the hard work

and dedication that he does on a day to day basis for his job, but his child loves and appreciates

him for all of the hard work that he does. The poem was from a child’s point of view and the

theme of Those Winter Sundays is created through the stream of consciousness, conflicts,

symbolism, and a flat/ static relationship of the poem. The father rises early on Sundays after a

tense week of work, it seems as though no one appreciates him. Considering that the father

works all the time the father might not show that he cares because he is not emotionally intact.

However, getting up early to attend work shows that he cares because he is doing what he has to

do to take care of the house. “Sundays to my father got up early. No one ever thanked him”

(line1 & 5). This line represents a loving child who watches their father despises on getting up

every Sunday to go to work and never receives a thank you for all of the hard work that he has

done.

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The father does not express his emotions toward his child in such a way that the child could

understand nevertheless the father was motivated to rise early to go to work through the harsh

winters to express his love for his child; “Out his clothes on in the blue black cold, / then with

cracked hands that ached/ from labor in the weekday.” (2-4).In the poem, Those Winter Sundays

the “blue, black and cold” represented how cold the winter was. It was so colds in the winter that

while getting dressed the father was turning blue. There is numbness from frost bites, which

turns the father toes black if they are freezing cold. In the winter there are also no colors, no

flowers blooming or rarely any nature. It’s just literally blue and black; black from the streets Ice

cold water that has frozen over the winter season.

The child respectfully loves and appreciates her father, even if he does not recognize the love

considering how busy and upset he was; “When the rooms were warm, / he’d call, and slowly I

would rise and dress, / fearing the chronic anger of that house”. Line (7-9). This line expresses

the child’s frightened emotions. The child took into consideration that the father woke up early in

the cold while getting ready for work. While taking the father waking up early in the cold into

consideration the child did not want to get up in such a way that would have angered the father

even more from what he already was from getting up early. Nevertheless “when the room was

warm” (Line 7) the father expressed his love for the child by waking the child when the house

was warm so that the child could get dressed and ready.

Concluding the unrecognized relationship between the father and child; both the child and the

father loved each other. “Speaking indifferently to him” (line 10). They just expressed their love

for one another in a different way. Lastly, the last line of the poem “Love’s austere” (line 14)

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recognizes how much the child appreciates how hard the father works, and that the child would

not let the father working so much go without being unnoticed even though no one thanked him.

Nonetheless, the father took care of his child and house through the rough times and that’s how

he showed his love for the child even though he was a thankless potent father.

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Works cited

Hayden, R. (2017, June 07). Those Winter Sundays. Retrieved September 08, 2017, from

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/those-winter-sundays