A relationship between any two people can have very different meanings. In a father to child relationship, there is a deep and complicated love. A relationship between a father and child has a special bond because of the love and affection for one another. Fathers are the foundation to a structured family. However, there are times when a relationship turns unhealthy or bad because there is no understanding, a lack of communication, and a feeling of distance. In “Those Winter Sundays,” by Robert Hayden, and “Why I went to College,” by Martin Espada, each poem represents a physical distance that led to an emotional distance as well.
The poems “Those Winter Sundays” and “Why I went to College” can be compared and contrasted in many ways. Due …show more content…
Indeed, the epigraph that precedes Hayden’s poem, “Sundays too my father got up early / and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,” (1-2) in direct contradistinction to the father’s force in Espada’s poem: “you better learn / to eat soup / through a straw, / ‘cause I’m gonna / break your jaw” (3-7). Literally speaking, the father’s lack of education fuels his desire for his son to get educated. Moreover, Hayden illustrates the father as a loving, patient, and kind character, while Espada describes the father as a brutal, and inconsistent thinker. The two authors directly state what they wanted to say in their poem towards the situations that a father engages with. In contrast to Hayden’s poem, despite each poem’s shared theme of a father’s love, the language and imagery put forth in Espada’s are markedly …show more content…
The Espada’s speaker is threatened by his father. The father’s lack of education makes the reader understand clearly that he has no choice and the education is very important for a better future. Contradictorily Hayden’s speaker now aware of his ignorance being a child seen through this rhetorical question: “What did I know, what did I know/of love's austere and lonely offices? (13-14). Here we realize everything the father has done was for the family even though it may have seemed differently. Overall, Espada’s poem gives us a realistic picture of a problem today that many children don’t want to study and they don’t understand the value of
The poems “Those Winter Sundays” and “Why I went to College” can be compared and contrasted in many ways. Due …show more content…
Indeed, the epigraph that precedes Hayden’s poem, “Sundays too my father got up early / and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,” (1-2) in direct contradistinction to the father’s force in Espada’s poem: “you better learn / to eat soup / through a straw, / ‘cause I’m gonna / break your jaw” (3-7). Literally speaking, the father’s lack of education fuels his desire for his son to get educated. Moreover, Hayden illustrates the father as a loving, patient, and kind character, while Espada describes the father as a brutal, and inconsistent thinker. The two authors directly state what they wanted to say in their poem towards the situations that a father engages with. In contrast to Hayden’s poem, despite each poem’s shared theme of a father’s love, the language and imagery put forth in Espada’s are markedly …show more content…
The Espada’s speaker is threatened by his father. The father’s lack of education makes the reader understand clearly that he has no choice and the education is very important for a better future. Contradictorily Hayden’s speaker now aware of his ignorance being a child seen through this rhetorical question: “What did I know, what did I know/of love's austere and lonely offices? (13-14). Here we realize everything the father has done was for the family even though it may have seemed differently. Overall, Espada’s poem gives us a realistic picture of a problem today that many children don’t want to study and they don’t understand the value of