Have we ever wondered how to thank someone who was the most influential person during those first fragile eighteen years of life, and who was there to contain the solidified inconsistencies of society by demonstrating a constant love without conditions that will never erode one's position? In Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing, he shows Robert Hayden, a poet, as an angry child in an angry home, who had no idea of ​​the meaning of unconditional love, but as a man who reflected on this experience of perpetual love only then understood the strength of its hold. Moreover, the author did not only do this to write a poem of apology and thanks, but also to acknowledge to his father and the world that he lives in this “austere and lonely office”. Understand today that economic inequalities can cause revolt and that inequalities between parents can cause a breakdown in the family unit. In a poem titled “Those Winter Sundays,” author Robert Hayden not only entrusts the parent-child-parent relationship, but the poem rings as a connective tissue for society as a whole. idea of ​​who Robert Hayden was as a child. As a man, Hayden was the first black American poet to serve as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress. Beginning in the 1930s, he researched black history for the Federal Writers' Project in his hometown of Detroit, Michigan. While studying at the University of Michigan, Hayden was influenced by WH Auden and Stephen Vincent Benet who wrote about slavery and black men fighting in the Civil War in the United States of America. This influence earned Robert Hayden the Hopwood Prize in 1942. He later graduated from college in ...... middle of paper ......ecf06c>.Hayden, Robert Earl. “Those winter Sundays.” Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing. Ed. XJ Kennedy and Dana Gioia. New Jersey: Pearson, 2012. 382. Print.Johnson, Jeannine. “A preview of “These Winter Sundays”.” Poetry for students. Detroit: gale. Gale Literary Resources. Internet. April 25, 2014. “Robert E(arl) Hayden.” Contemporary authors online. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Biography in Context. Internet. April 24 2014. .