Those Winter Sundays

Communicating with our Loved Ones Robert Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays” can be portrayed as a family that had no communication with its members. A house with no communication cannot show any love toward another person but in this case this poem acts as a way to do it. Robert Hayden grew up in a family similar to this description and now writes this poem to contradict what he in fact wrote in his …

…able to thank his father for his hard work because they were on different terms. If the father worked everyday then when do the father and child get to experience a relationship? The author explained that there was no communication between the father and child because Robert Hayden was “speaking indifferently to him.” "Speaking indifferently" gives the reader verification that communication in that household between the parents and the children is a rather unconcerned one.