Those Winter Sundays - Flashcards

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Title of the poem

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Those Winter Sundays

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Author of the poem

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Robert Hayden

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Father's routine on Sundays

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Got up early and put on clothes in the cold

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Father's hands description

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Cracked and ached from labor

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Father's task with the fires

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Made banked fires blaze

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Child's morning routine

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Slowly rise and dress

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Child's realization

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Unaware of love’s austere and lonely offices

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Meaning of "austere and lonely offices"

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The demanding and unappreciated duties of love

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Speaker of the poem

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An adult looking back to a place and time in his or her childhood.

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Weather on Sunday mornings

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Freezing cold.