"Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden

     "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden reflects on a man's regrets to previously have thanked his father.  The images in the poem greatly affect the way the reader interprets the poem.  The author uses the images to give the reader a clearer view of the reader's life and father.  One image is  "...blueblack cold..." and another is "...with cracked hands that ached..." (Hayden, 781).  The images give the reader a closer look on what the father did for the boy without any credit at all.  The author regrets the fact that he never thanked his father for all of the hard work he did for him.  The author communicates this through the images.  The dad has unconditional love for his son.  The father made fires and warmed the room before he woke up his son and throughout the winter worked very hard to support his son.  The poem is a way for the author to thank his father for all the things that seemed to go unthanked.