“Those Winter Sundays” and “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” have many different characteristics. However, both poems share the some the same ideas of reminiscing about each others childhood with their fathers. As well some differences they have is the main ideas, the message, imagery, and symbols such as time.
The first poem, “Those Winter Sundays” was about a young boy reminiscing back on his childhood as a current adult. He began by pointing out all the little things that his father had done for him when he was a child, such as harm the house before he gets up for school and more. The true motive behind this poem is that when you are young, you don’t tend to realized what your parents have sacrificed for you until it is to late, though
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The darkness stems from how the author describes seems in the poem such as when Thomas writes, “Though wise men at their end know dark is right, because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that night” (878). Meaning that even though the old men knew that they were near their death, they don't stay calm because what they said they were going to do, didn't match their actions, so now they're stressing on how to change that before they die.
Both poems also showed signs of symbolism for example in the “Those Winter Sundays” poem, the symbols that were expressed that as a young boy the narrator wasn't of the house it’s self, but he was more afraid of the environment his father had created for him in his childhood. With that being said, this showed that even though his father his made sure he was warm in the mornings, and that he felt that he was showing his son that he loved and cared about him, it still wasn't enough for the son to feel a sense of security being in the type of environment that the old house created for him as a young boy in the winter