Part of the appeal of “Those Winter Sundays” is that readers can draw their own conclusions about the speaker and his father because things are left uncertain.

Which line from the poem leaves readers wondering why there is tension in the speaker’s childhood home?


"then with cracked hands that ached"

"I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking."

"Sundays too my father got up early"

"fearing the chronic angers of that house,"