“Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden In “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden an adult person, most likely a man, talks about the winter Sundays of his childhood. He remembers the events that happened early in the morning and how much the events represented his father's love for him. The man realizes that as a child he failed to appreciate the hard work his father put in to provide him with some basic necessities and a little extra benefit at times. The theme of the poem is sad and lonely. Assuming the speaker is a man looking back on his childhood, the child was alone and perhaps even afraid of his father. The child seemed to associate his father with the "chronic angers of that house". The speaker, who may also be the author, uses images and imagery to help the reader focus on the important parts of the poem. Imagery plays an important role in this poem. The images used appeal to almost all of the reader's senses except tastes. Starting from the first stanza, the reader's senses of touch and sight are stimulated. For example, when the speaker described chapped hands that hurt,” the reader sees an elderly man with dry, chapped hands. This may lead the reader to a number of assumptions about the man who is tired of his job or perhaps suffers from arthritis which would lead to dry and painful hands. He also appeals to the sense of touch and sight when he describes his father's hands and also when he “dresses himself in blue”....