KTCT COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION

KADUVAYIL
THOTTAKKADU P.O
KALLAMBALAM

Name of teacher : Sreelekshmy S
Subject : English
Reg No : 13369011
Standard : IX
Unit : Roots
Topic : Those Winter Sundays
Time : 45 min

Author : Robert Hayden
(1913-1980)
American Poet
Major work : Sequence on the vietnam
war

1. Do you like your parents?
2. Whom do you like the most?

Those Winter Sundays is a poem by
Robert Hayden. With a sense of grief
a son fondly recalls how he never
appreciated his fathers love when he
was a boy.
READ ME
Sundays too my father got up early
And put his clothes on in the blue black cold,
Then with cracked hands that ached
From labour in the week day weather made
Banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

Id wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking
When the rooms were warm, hed 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 loves austere and lonely offices?

1. Who is the author of the poem?
2. The writer belonged to which country?
3. Who is the speaker in the poem?
4. Name a visual image from the poem.

1. Robert Hayden
2. America
3. The Son
4. Cracked hands
FOLLOW UP ACTIVITIES
1. Which are the auditory images mentioned in the poem?
2. How is Sunday contrasted with week day?
THE END

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