‘Those Winter Sundays,’ a reflection on Robert Hayden’s poem | Opinion
The classic American poem teaches us something about cold weather, cold relationships, and the often misunderstood attempts to warm hearts
There was music in Paradise Valley: Ethel Waters, Pearl Bailey and Ella Fitzgerald played in the bars and clubs along Adams Avenue, and in the ‘40s and ‘50s you could hear Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong play at the fabulous Paradise Theater. “Those Winter Sundays” takes some of its force from its reference to the physical reality of bitter cold. It might ring hollow to those who are unacquainted with serious cold and the way it infiltrates an unheated house or exposed body with threatening persistence. Contemporary furnaces and thermostats work wonders in holding the cold at bay, but even within the last couple years, Texans have had to confront the impersonal brutality of the cold when the furnace fails.
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