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 could get out of bed into a warm house. However, he failed to appreciate his father's love. This brief and lovely poem captures the sense of poignancy inherent love in the father-son relationship.

The poet is the obvious speaker who is a man recalled getting alone with his father when he was a child. Hayden wrote this poem in 1962 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 uses v

And put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,

pedestrian and undertaken without full appreciation. To our parents, although

regretful and wistful. We can read the rhyme and notice how the sounds of

then with cracked hands that ached

fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Sundays too my father got up early

of love's austere and lonely offices?

desperately trying to provide for his family. His father made "banked fires blaze" by "cracked hands". However, "No one ever thanked him", it states that his father was always doing daily routine for the son, but the son did not appreciate his father at all. The relation between father and son is a little bit negative.

introduced to the household. "When the rooms were warm, he'd call", this

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Approximate Word count = 1378
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)