post 16 use of mythological elements in "Those Winter Sundays"

The culture expectations in this poem is that the man of the house would get up early in the winter to warm up the house. The man of the house should be exhausted from the hard work he had put in throughout the week. Robert Hayden said "this poem is about the cold past and a present reverence for him." I think this still lives on today. Fathers are always at fault if something goes wrong. They still get up early to cook, work, and do things around the house to keep everything running smoothly.