Tag: Those Winter Sundays

• Those Winter Sundays

  

  It is fitting to read Robert Hayden’s poem, ‘Those Winter Sundays‘, as the expression of belated gratitude for a father who, unable to speak his love, demonstrated it in practical ways. As a boy, the narrator knows nothing of “love’s austere and lonely offices”. Only as he has become a man, likely fulfilling comparable offices…

  markwithanx

  May 23, 2022

  Poetry

  Fathers and sons, Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays