March 24th

Well look at this, according to www.poets.org (obviously one of my top visited sites on the internet) Yusef Komunyakaa was born in 1947 in Bogalusa, Louisiana.  He was the oldest of five sons of a carpenter.  Knowing just this small bit of information leads to further believe that "Sunday Afternoons" is written from Yusef's personal experiences.   He was from the South and that is where this poem is set.  The speaker of the poem is clearly older than his other siblings and Yusef was the eldest of five children.  All of his siblings were boys and that is another similarity from his life to the poem.  The speaker in the poem seems to know he want to be an adult poet someday, and you guessed it Yusef is now a poet.  Yusef must use his childhood experiences as inspiration for his writings.