Those Winter Sundays

I thought this poem was the relationship between a child and their father. Through diction we see that the realtionship is not close because of the "chronic angers of that house" suggesting that the father was the disciplinary one. But we see that he was also a hard worker because of the "cracked hands that ached". Through the long sentence describing the father we realize the gravity of his work. We see the long struggle he must do to provide for his family. Although his family never thanked him. I also read a tone of regret when the person talked of how the father made the house warm. Then the family "slowly..." rose and dressed. Also you saw the regret through the last line. It narrator questions his or her knowledge of the true boundaries of love and how there really isn't any. And so the reader sees the narraters remorse for grateful words left unspoken.