We can think of these “chronic angers” in two ways. First, we can interpret them as referring to the people in the house (the speaker’s family) being angry. So that anger has to leave our speaker (and probably his father) feeling pretty rotten. At the very least, our speaker is scared of those angers.
Q. What is Those Winter Sundays poem about?
Those Winter Sundays is a poem about a memory. The speaker recalls the actions of a father who each Sunday rises early to dutifully make a fire and polish the good shoes for his son. It’s only later on in life that the child becomes aware of the sacrifice his father, a hard working parent, made.
Table of Contents
- Q. What is Those Winter Sundays poem about?
- Q. What does Blueblack cold mean?
- Q. What type of poem is Those Winter Sundays?
- Q. What does austere mean in those winter Sundays?
- Q. What does driven out the cold mean?
- Q. What does the phrase Sundays too mean?
- Q. What would the speaker like the weekdays to do?
- Q. What does what did I know what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices mean?
- Q. Who is the speaker of Those Winter Sundays?
Q. What does Blueblack cold mean?
Even though “blueblack” isn’t something you can feel, it creates an impression of the cold that includes how it looks rather than just how it feels. The speaker says it is early morning, so “blueblack” might be describing what the sky looks like outside the window or how the room looks in the early light.
Q. What type of poem is Those Winter Sundays?
“Those Winter Sundays” fills the most basic qualification for a sonnet: it has fourteen lines. Other than that, it’s not very sonnet-ish. The poem doesn’t rhyme and it’s not written in regular iambic pentameter. This line follows no metrical pattern whatsoever.
Q. What does austere mean in those winter Sundays?
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Q. What does driven out the cold mean?
driven out the cold “Drive” can mean to push something along, like a cowboy might drive cattle across the prairie.
Q. What does the phrase Sundays too mean?
The simple phrase “Sundays too” implies two things. First, it implies that the father’s actions took place on Sundays as well as on every other day of the week.
Q. What would the speaker like the weekdays to do?
ii) What would the speaker like the weekdays to do? = The speaker like the weekdays to come slowly and stay for a less time and return very fast.
Q. What does what did I know what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices mean?
The poem’s final line completes the question: “what did I know/of love’s austere and lonely offices?” The child was unable to know the difficulty and sacrifice of parental love. The word “offices” denotes a service done for another. It implies that the father’s life revolved around serving his son.
Q. Who is the speaker of Those Winter Sundays?
Robert Hayden’s speaker in this nearly perfect poem, “Those Winter Sundays,” happens to be a man reflecting on his attitude and behavior during his childhood.
