What were your initial thoughts on Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays”? In what way did the video change, enhance or complicate your initial understanding of the poem or the sonnet form? Feel free to quote a specific part of the video and/or poem in your post. try to find video online
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Those Winter Sundays
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?