Cyann Mills 711

Essay 3/10/2014
　

Poems about parents can be deep or playful. Of course this all depends on the poets point of view and their experience as a child, but no matter what emotion the poem gives, it usually means something to the poet. Something as deep as child abuse or as playfull as simply dancing with your father . "Those winter Sundays", by Robert Hayden and "My Papas Waltz", by Theodore Roelhke are both great examples of the many differences and this is what I'm here to discuss.

"Those Winter Sundays", by Robert Hayden is about a poem appreciating what people do for you instaed of taking it for granted. This poem is about a father who wakes up earlt in the morning to make a fire for his family. As it states in the first stanza, My father got up early and puts his clothes in the blue black cold". This show's his father wakes up before dawn. This demonstartes how much the father sacrifices for his family. At the end of the stanza it says the following, "No one ever thanked him". This supports the theme idea. In conclusion, this poem is more deep than playful.

"My Papas Waltz", by Theodore Roethke is about loving your kids in ways that they will understand at a young age. This poem is about a man and his very young son dancing and having fun together. As it stated "Then waltzed me off to bedstill clinging to your shirt". This supports my theme idea, because his son hung on to his father's shirt and it shows how much he loved his father. His son loved him so deeply he didn't want to let him go.

In conclusion these two poems are different because they both talk about a father's love but in the first poem 'Those Winter Sundays", by Robert Hayden shows that when fathersshow their love in nonabvious ways they get no recognition. In the second poem "My Papas Waltz", by Theodore Roethke is about all of the love he is getting from his son because his father has shown him signs of obvious affection.Over all both poems have very diffrent ideas but they both talk about the value of a fathers love.