The narrator in Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" displays a son's recollections of how his father conveyed love for him by way of his deeds. The narrator recalls on Sunday mornings his father woke up at the crack of dawn to add fuel to the furnace fire. He was never woken up until the house became warm enough to tolerate so he could get dressed. "Sundays too my father got up early" (Hayden 540) implies that this was a normal Sunday for the father and getting up on any given day was the norm for him. The importance of the child's moral upbringing is important to the father. Hayden states that the father "… polished my good shoes as well" (540) implying that he will be bringing his son to church because why else would his shoes need
