Love and sacrifice are bind together, he who sacrifices does not expect something in return, but the mere knowledge that his loved ones are protected. This is essentially what the poem Those Winter Sunday’s by Robert Hayden is centered around. Robert Hayden introduces the audience to a father and child relationship. The child is looking back to his childhood days, and only now as an adult does he realize just how much his father did for him, and how ungrateful he was not to realize it then. The reader sees the understanding or regret that the now adult feels, as he realizes what the child version of himself could not. The theme of sacrifice and love that the poem conveys is made evident through the use of kinesthetic imagery, the use of diction,
