Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden Robert Hayden possessed amazing skill with Language and the structure of the poem. Though perhaps best known for his poems that explore and express the African-American experience, from the days of slavery, to the Civil War, to that of his own time, poems like Middle Passage, or The Bal shy;lad of Nat Turner, he also wrote shorter, arguably more lyric poems that capture personal or religious moments. Those Winter Sundays, a poem about a son ...