Those Winter Sundays Robert Hayden's poem Those Winter Sundays retells a grown man's perspective of his father. The speaker is the man remembering his Father waking up early in the morning before sunrise to make a fire in their home. ... I felt that it was a realization in the last two lines for the speaker who is now a man. He has realized now what his Father did for his family all those Sundays. ... The title is the first image describing a season. ...

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In 1963 the Enrollment Act was made, it said that all males must get draft cards right after their 18th birthday (Surrey 13). ... In Timmy's first football game of his senior year, Timmy broke his leg and couldn't play another game for the rest of the season. After his injury all colleges lost interest in recruiting him to play football for them. ... Timmy's grandmother told him that there was no other man in his mother's life and that his mother and she will do everything in their power to keep him from going to war and losing him. ... She refuses to date or get ...

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• Grade Level: High School