Those Winter Days

I liked this poem, too. A hard working father, who seems to want to do anything for his child. The father is playing the mother role, which makes a person wonder, what happened to her. Did she die, are they divorced? The father is lonely, maybe angry that he is alone, raising a child on his own. The child fears the anger. When the poem mentions, when the rooms were warm (Hayden) he'd call- the father was up early, making the rooms comfortable for him before he rises. I think the child was probably disrespectful to his father when the poem mentions he spoke indifferenty to him.