Part one of term paper
days" The poem " Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden is my favorite poem. It is full of deep affections not only in its words but also in the visual structure of the stanzas. In this particular poem, Hayden recounts that in winter Sunday mornings, his father always gets up in the cold and builds a fire for him, the child, so that he cou ...

Part two of term paper
... when he was middle age. To understand Hayden why he wants to write this poem, we must look back the childhood of Hayden. Hayden was born in a destitute area of Detroit in 1913. He had an emotionally tumultuous childhood. Because his parents separated before he was born, he was raised by neighbors. As he grew up in a foster family, he and his foster father have a generation gap. He does not realize how much his father loved him until he is an adult. In the first stanza, Hayden u ...