Ballads of Remembrance by Robert Hayden :: Robert Hayden

In 1962 Robert Hayden wrote a collection of poems entitled Ballads of Remembrance. This collection is comprised of 36 poems that are separated into 4 groups. Each group refers to a unalike focus of remembrance for example, one group focuses on the struggle of African Americans in terms of finding identity and a sense of transc extirpateence. Those spend Sundays is part of the group of poems that focuses on remembrances of Haydens childhood, past, and personal struggles.Hayden had an extremely jolty and conflicted childhood. His parents were divorced at a young age, and his overprotect left him with a foster family in Detroit whose name, Hayden, he ended up adopting. He grew up in a very poor neighborhood called Paradise Valley, which was non a paradise at all. He had separate issues with his foster m a nonher(prenominal) and father, who were both stern people. His father encouraged Robert to gain an education in order to lift himself out of poverty. Yet, at the same time, his fa ther open it difficult to communicate with his foster son, who always had his head in a book or was constantly studying.The lack of verbal communication mingled with his father and himself can be seen in his poem Those Winter Sundays. The boilers suit impression of the poem is that love can be communicated in other ways than through words it can be communicated through everyday, quotidian actions. For example, in the poem, the father awakens on Sundays too to warm the house with a send word and polish his sons shoes. on that point is a sense of coldness in the beginning of the poem through the linesSundays too my father got up proterozoicand put his clothes on in the blueblack cold.Haydens father is not only bringing physical warmth to him by making the fire he is also bringing spiritual warmth to him. By the end of the poem, the reader feels an overall sense of warmth as the poet comes to a weaken understanding of his fathers unappreciated actions.In terms of Romanticism, t he mood of transcendence seems to be present in the poem in believe to the fact that the father-son relationship is beyond words. The relationship exists, but it is difficult to articulate. withal the idea that Hayden is rising to a deeper understanding of his relationship with his father is present. There are lines in the poem that stateWhen the rooms were warm, hed call,And slowly I would rise and dress.