Robert Hayden's Those Winter Sundays depicts a scene of a hardworking, unappreciated father. This is made clear to the reader through the use of imagery. The imagery the author chooses describes the father's busy and misrable mornings. The father seems hardworking, shown by the use of phrases such as, "cracked hands that ached from labor" (Hayden, 781). He devotes himself to his family, getting up early in the "blueback cold", which describes to the reader the utter misery that is those cold mornings. The speaker wakes and says the cold spliters and breaks, implying he was able to wait for warmth to arrive, unlike his father.
The imagery elicits many emotions from the reader. Firstly, the reader feels pity for the father. He spends his mornings working in the cold for his family. Also the reader feels anger on the father's behalf. He is obviously unappreciated, recieving no thanks for his sacrifice. All these emotions are felt by the reader due to the author's use of imagery.
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