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The Second Shortest Poem Summary

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I picked this poem solely because it was the second shortest poem out of our list of poems to choose from and last week I responded on the first shortest, so this looked like the next easiest. Now I thought it was going to be easy just because of the length of the poem, but it turns out I had to read this poem over and over just to understand it. Although after reading it countless times, I think I understand the poem now. The speaker talks about his father getting up early every Sunday morning to light fires all throughout the house in order to warm the house up. The speaker wakes up once the house is warm, and then gets out the bed to meet his father once he is called for him. The speaker says that he doesn’t talk to his father with any
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