Those Winter Sundays

Guilt is the central theme of the poem, “Those Winter Sundays.” Upon reading this emotionally steering poem, it leaves the reader reminiscing of one's own childhood. “What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?” “Those Winter Sundays,” is a poem of a father that worked very hard to support his family and could not spend very much quality time with them. This was conveyed from the following line, “Sundays …showed first 75 words of 309 total…

…showed last 75 words of 309 total…being a naïve youngster and not appreciating the love his father could best express. In an odd retrospect, the poem seems to be a vessel the author uses to forgive not only his father but himself. “What did I know, what did I know.” The author was probably a father himself by the time he has written this poem. He too has taken the father role and cannot spend much time with his family.