Those Winter Sundays. By: Robert Hayden

Within the poem titled Those Winter Sundays, the reader focuses on his father's role in his house as a child. The reader goes through remorse and begins to resect his father's role in his life. By comparing his father to Winter, the tone of the poem is cold and fridgid. The words used to describe his father are very harsh and painful suck as cracked, and ached. In my eyes, this poem resembles how a boy doesn't understand his father then grows to be the man his father was. What are some litterary terms used in this poem? Being that this is my first post without review, The ones I could remember were imagery and contrast. The author uses many descriptive words so that we can feel and see what he felt and saw. These would include blueback cold(2), cracked hands(3), fire's blaze(5), and cold splitering(6). The tone is changed to a more warm feeling including that the rooms were warm(7) and polished(12). Contrast is used with warmth and cold. In this poem warmth is used to remember his good loving times with his father while the cold represents his regretted memories.
My personal thoughts on this poem go to me and my father. Back in freshman year my father was like a Winter Sunday. We had dissagreements and hateful words thrown at each other. At the end of the day though, i'd end up on his lap and sharing laughs with him. Now that I am a senior, those bickerments and hateful words are in my pile of regrets at the top.  By relating to this poem it was an easier read and easier to understand.