Quantavius Thornwell
Those Winter Sundays
The speaker says his pops gets up super early every Sunday morning to light fires in the fireplaces to warm up their home. It's impressive when you learn that his dad is totally worn out from an intense work week. No one, including the speaker, thanks his father for doing this. The speaker tells us that he would get out of bed once the house was warm and when his father called for him. I think the speaker was a little bit afraid of his father because he said the house was filled with “chronic angers” rather than say the house was filled with sunshine. once the speaker had hauled himself out of bed, he would talk to his dad but not with any kind of enthusiasm or affection. Despite the fact that his dad had lit all the fires in his house and even polished his kid's shoes. Why did he do that? Probably because he didn't know a ton about love back then. The speaker implies in the poem’s final lines that he didn’t understand that his father’s behavior (lighting the fires, shining the shoes) was an expression of fatherly love. But now he does. The lack of knowledge about the speaker is the part that speaks to me the most. We can all imagine ourselves in the speakers position because as a child who does understand his or her parents. The speaker in this story is an adult who looks back on his childhood relationship with his father. The speaker is both the child who fears his father and the adult who looks back upon his pops with
