The line “and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold” (2), is interesting due to the amount of imagery allowing the reader to feel as if they are in the room. The cold is being described in an identical style of a bruise, which helps with the reader get a better perception of the negative connotation throughout the poem. The following line “then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him” (3-5) this specific quote truly shows the narrators guilt and regret of under appreciation toward his father. Hayden’s use of great detail describing the speaker’s father’s hands, develops a realization for the reader of the sacrifices made by the father every
The line “and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold” (2), is interesting due to the amount of imagery allowing the reader to feel as if they are in the room. The cold is being described in an identical style of a bruise, which helps with the reader get a better perception of the negative connotation throughout the poem. The following line “then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him” (3-5) this specific quote truly shows the narrators guilt and regret of under appreciation toward his father. Hayden’s use of great detail describing the speaker’s father’s hands, develops a realization for the reader of the sacrifices made by the father every