However, the experiences narrated in these poems are quite different. It is apparent that Hayden wants us to learn from his mistakes and listen to the advice he gives through the subtleties of “Those Winter Sundays.”. would have reached the port of Príncipe in two, three days at most; but for the storm we should, Swift as the puma’s leap it came. The shield flashed bare. “But for the storm that flung up barriers. Voyage through death                                      to life upon these shores. Unfortunately, Hayden can not reverse the distant relationship he caused with his father, but he instead tells readers this story. Robert Hayden Collected Poems Edited by Frederick Glaysher Liveright Publishing Corporation A Division ofW. “Those Winter Sundays.” Making Literature Matter: An Anthology for Readersand Writers. Crew uneasy. Twenty years a trader, twenty years, for there was wealth aplenty to be harvested   from those black fields, and I’d be trading still   but for the fevers melting down my bones. Since his parents left him with family friends, he grew up with that family and didn’t know his real name until he was forty years old. W. Norton & Company New York I London . where none is lonely, none hunted, alien,    like jests of kindness on a murderer’s mouth; weave toward New World littorals that are, A charnel stench, effluvium of living death. Sixth Edition. Hayden taught for many years at Fisk University, returning at the end of his career to the University of Michigan. The poem “My Father’s Song” is based on the wisdom and values, as well as traditions passed from old generation to new one. Read More. I cannot sleep, for I am sick        with fear, but writing eases fear a little        since still my eyes can see these words take shape          upon the page & so I write, as one        would turn to exorcism. If Hayden could go back to his younger self, he would have treated his father as special and been grateful for what he had done for him and the rest of the family. ours and their own. Poetic Training. Close Reading Notes for “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden, Daniel Landau: Robert Hayden’s "Those Winter Sundays": A Child’s Memory, Janice Harrington: On Robert Hayden’s “Night, Death, Mississippi”, John Hatcher: On "Night, Death, Mississippi", John F. Callahan: On "Night, Death, Mississippi", Pontheolla T. Williams: On "Night, Death, Mississippi", Thierry Ramais: On "Night, Death, Mississippi", Jaime Brunton: On "Night, Death, Mississippi", Fred M. Fetrow On "A Letter from Phyllis Wheatley, Pontheolla T. Williams: On "A Letter from Phyllis Wheatley", Fred M. Fetrow: On "A Letter from Phyllis Wheatley", John Hatcher: On "A Letter from Phyllis Wheatley", Pantheolla T. Williams: On Middle Passage, John Hatcher on: Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves, Fred M. Fetrow: On "Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves", Pontheolla T. Williams: On "Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves", Pontheolla T. Williams: On "Runagate Runagate", Robert Stepto: On "Elegies for Paradise Valley", Pontheolla T. Williams: On "Elegies for Paradise Valley", John Hatcher: On "Elegies for Paradise Valley", Pontheolla T. Williams: On "The Dogwood Trees", John Hatcher: On "O Daedalus, Fly Away Home", Pontheolla T. Williams: On "O Daedalus, Fly Away Home".