AP Success - AP English Literature Poetry Analysis: Robert Hayden
Question 1
In Robert Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays,” published in 1962, the speaker recounts winter mornings when his father would like a fire to warm the house. Read the poem carefully. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze how Hayden uses literary elements and techniques to convey the speaker’s perceptions about their father.
In your response you should do the following:
• Respond to the prompt with a thesis that presents a defensible interpretation. • Select and use evidence to support your line of reasoning. • Explain how the evidence supports your line of reasoning. • Use appropriate grammar and punctuation in communicating your argument.
Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house,
Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices?
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