Comparing Poems 'Those Winter Sundays And My Father's Song'
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The subject of talk in the two poems is instants, times or days shared by the speakers with their dads. Actually, the conflict here is that the poem My Father’s Song is talking about a working day and the speaker’s memory is on the days they worked with his dad. Consequently, the reader’s mind is, in this case, (is) shifted to the days of the week. On the other hand, the poem Those Winter Sundays makes the reader concentrate on a day of rest, the instants when people relax and this day is Sunday. To take this contrast further, Ortiz’s poem talks of a relaxed mood (temperament) on a working instants. In fact, the narrator and his father seem to be working in a comfortable and relaxed atmosphere, and they do many stuffs like scooping animals.…show more content… However, in one poem there is regret(sorrow) in the recollections during the other poem demonstrates comfort in the memories. Actually, the Ortiz’ poem shows (demonstrates) the speaker as finding comfort in the moments he had with the dad. He recollects these instant he had and is probably appreciating all that happened previously. It can be told from the mood of joy that is present in the poem. The last stanza asserts this when the speaker ending the narration remembering the softness and the warmth of the instants. On the other hand, the narrator in Hayden’s poem seems to regret as his narration is filled with a sorrowful (depressing) mood of wishing for a opportunity to appreciate his dad and this is the reason why in the first stanza, he adds the line, “No one ever thanked him.” (Out Loud, 2003.para. 1). Moreover, in the latter stanza, he regrets (compunction) why he did not notice the father’s love. The poet has achieved (accomplished) this by making the speaker wonder and ask himself one question and this question is how he could have ever known. In fact, the repetition of the words, “what did I know” detects the regret (sorrow) in the narrator’s