Pbs Learning Media: Poetry in America: Those Winter Sundays

Robert Hayden's sonnet "Those Winter Sundays" offers a meditation on the fraught love between fathers and sons. Conjuring Depression-era industrial Detroit and the struggles of early 20th-century African Americans, the poem's universality makes it one of the most beloved poems in the American canon. In this video [7:51] excerpted from Poetry in America, Vice President Joe Biden, Inaugural poet Elizabeth Alexander, psychologist Angela Duckworth, and host Elisa New join a chorus of working fathers and sons to reflect on Hayden's moving poem.