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“Those Winter Sundays” Growing up in New England one knows the “true” meaning of winter. In Robert Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays,” he uses many techniques to get the point of coldness across and also the point about how the speaker viewed his father. The best technique that is used in the poem is imagery. Without getting lost in the great use of imagery in the poem, one cannot forget the true meaning that …

…for a few minutes as the boy got dressed. The father went out of his way for his family. After working a whole week, he should be sleeping, but instead makes the sacrifices for his family and he loves to do it. Now that the speaker knows what his father went through, he loves his father even more and wishes that he told him and thanked him for what his father did for the family