Evidence that hard work and effort does not always allow us to live long and fulfilling lives is developed in the tone and diction of “Those Winter Sunday’s”, a poem by Robert Hayden. Diction showed that, while the speaker’s father, “got up early…with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather,” showing the time, effort and pride he put into his work in order to life a good life in which he could afford to pay for necessities. Yet, it is evident that the time the speaker’s father spent with his work, as well as his poor attitude, “the chronic angers of that house,” led the father and the speaker to “[Speak] indifferently.” Similarly, the bitter, angry, loveless, tone of the poem developed in this diction shows that the father
