Poems are forms of writings where writers express their emotions in short but rhymed form. Poems incorporate a speech but that is delivered with rhythm and in a metaphorical way. “Those Winter Sundays,” a poem by Robert Hayden, is about the hard work fathers put while working and how to know one recognizes the hard work that they put in to feed their families. In this particular poem, the speaker specifies that the father would wake up early in the morning to work for the family, but no one thanked him for the great sacrifice and work he did for his family. The second one is My Father’s Hat by Mark Irwin. The poem is mainly about a child who loved his father’s hat since he could smell the presence and feel his presence around him. He would …show more content…
For instance, My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke in the line (7-8) “my mother’s countenance/could not unfrown itself”. The mother was not happy about the speaker and his father this shows that the mood of the mother as well as explains her reactions. The wording choice helps to understand the poem better. In addition to that, the author uses figurative speech to explain the emotions and imaginations of the speaker and this changes the author’s mood. For instance, in the poem the speaker said; “Such waltzing was not easy…” (4). This was a metaphor since the speaker was explaining that the father’s and speaker’s relationship using the waltzing and this defines the poem since it shows that the father and son’s relationship was not good. In addition to this from the poem on the line (3), “But I hung on like death...” is a simile to compare that the boy was hanging on his father and was inexorable like death. Thus, the speaker chooses different wording since it helps to frame the poem and provide better comprehension to the reader and as a reader the wording had a great impact on me. In case of this poem, the author’s descriptions showed me that sometimes parents do not accomplish their roles and give their children maximum affection hence creating weak bonds in their