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C) THOSE WINTER SUNDAYS, Robert Hayden, , Robert Haydenf1913-1980) grew up in aAfrican-American, Paradise Valley. He was adopted by a, His, neighbour's family at the age of two when his parents separated., section of Detroit known, , as, , adoptive father was a strict Baptist and manual labourer., , FThose Winter Sundays js taken fromHayden's Collected, Poems of Robert Hayden)The poem is Hayden's heart-wrenching, domestic masterpiece. It is a poem þfdiscovery and definition, The, , main theme ofthe poem is that of/parental sacrifice and duty The, , speaker recalls the actions ofa father who rises early eachSundajto, fire and polish the good shoes for his son. But the, child becomes aware of the sacrifice of his hard working father too, , dutifully make a, , late in his life., , Sundaysoo myfathergot up early, , and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,, , then with cracked hands that ached, from labor in the weekday weather made, banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him., , I'd wake and hearthecoldsplinteringbreaking., When the rooms were warm, he'd call,, And slowly I would rise and dress,, fearing the chronic angers of that house,, , Speaking indifferently to him,, who had driven out the cold, and polished my goodshoesas well., What didI know, what did I know, of love's austere and lonely oflices?, 55

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Skimming and Scanning Questions:, , the correet, correct, sentences using the, following, the, Complete, them:, alternative from the ones given below, , 1., , The father in the poem is..., a) officer, , c)clerk, 2., , laborer, d) teacher, , The father in the poem got up early on Sundays to0 in, , ....., , b) the black cold, d) the black blue cold, c)the blue cold, The speaker had the fear of..., of that house., a) darkness, b) ghosts, , he blue black cold, 3., , ..., , chronic angers, 4., , d) loneliness, , The poem, , Those Winter Sundays' is about...., unspoken love between father and son. b}winter Sundays, c) daily-routine of the father. ddaily-routine of the son., S6

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B, , Answer the following questions in one word/phrase/, sentence each:, Ate, rvory uere wammn, When did the father use to wake the speaker up?, What did the speaker use to, he woke up?cold ghen, What did the father do to warm up the rooms?, , 1., , hear when, , 5.5, , Which season is described in the poem?-i t r, How did the speaker behave towardshis father?, , 3-9.Lit f, , +he, , rvon, , IL Comprehension Questions:, , ene hante