American Literature / Unit 17 AML 1621 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Robert Hayden and "Those Winter Sundays"
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The idea
Hayden was born Asa Bundy Sheffey in Detroit, was given up to foster care, and became the first Black faculty member in Michigan's English department and the first African American Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress. "Those Winter Sundays" is a poem about his father's hard work.
In practice
A poem about a father's early rising.
Where people slip
His childhood household was violent.
Your place on the trail
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