Ces Dimanches D'hiver. (Translation) . Poem by Michael Walker

For the English original, see Poem hunter, Robert Hayden, Poems 15/15.
The loose sonnet is about a family's struggle against the cold, how to get warm and keep warm on Sundays. The poet's father lit the fire at the hearth for the family, although no one thanked him for it, and polished the boy's shoes as a little extra. Even so, the boy felt afraid of 'the chronic angers of that house'. The father, a considerate but angry man, the sort of man who is not uncommon in families with young children. Now the poet recognizes his father for his good points, realizing that as a boy he did not know or appreciate 'love's austere and lonely offices'. A personal family poem, with a touch of the universal-I identify with it and like 'Those Winter Sundays'.