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Those Winter Sundays
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Robert Hayden
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Those Winter Sundays Themes
Little Words, Big Ideas
Love
At its heart, “Those Winter Sundays” is about love. No, not the ooey-gooey thing between young lovers like Romeo and Juliet, but the deep and serious familial love between a parent and a child....
Sacrifice
We only ever see the speaker’s father through the speaker’s point of view, but it’s not too hard to imagine what the old man's life is like. "Those Winter Sundays" tells us that he wakes up e...
Youth
Remember the good old days when you were young? When someone lit the fires in your home so you didn’t have to? When someone polished your shoes? When someone paid the bills and cared for you? The...