After thoroughly enjoying the poems “My Father's Hats” by Mark Irwin, “My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke, and "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden, I would say the one that stood out to me the most would be Robert Hayden’s poem. The poems are the same due to all the authors relaying their feelings towards the relationships with their father. They all seem to have reverence for the man, but in different ways disconnected from an actual relationship with them. It is as if the fathers were a figment of their imagination, something that was there but completely not reachable or truly understandable in their eyes.
In the poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden, I feel the author is trying to relate to the man of the house, but still having an indifference towards him. The overall mood of the poem is to me a little sad, then …show more content…
When the author uses the metaphor “I’d wake and hear the cold, splintering, breaking” I get the sense that it was coldness past the weather, but the feelings where melancholy in the home. Also when the child states “slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house,” sounds as if the child felt there was an air of hostility in the home that was ever present. One way that you can tell is by the way the person in the poem describes the home, it shows that disconnect and unhappiness when stated, “That house” not seeing it as a home of love. Towards the end of the poem, the author began to reflect and come to the realization that the father did love him. The author noted that he would get up before everyone else and start the fire so the house was warm. Also the speaker recalled that the father got up every morning at
In the poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden, I feel the author is trying to relate to the man of the house, but still having an indifference towards him. The overall mood of the poem is to me a little sad, then …show more content…
When the author uses the metaphor “I’d wake and hear the cold, splintering, breaking” I get the sense that it was coldness past the weather, but the feelings where melancholy in the home. Also when the child states “slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house,” sounds as if the child felt there was an air of hostility in the home that was ever present. One way that you can tell is by the way the person in the poem describes the home, it shows that disconnect and unhappiness when stated, “That house” not seeing it as a home of love. Towards the end of the poem, the author began to reflect and come to the realization that the father did love him. The author noted that he would get up before everyone else and start the fire so the house was warm. Also the speaker recalled that the father got up every morning at