Comparing Poems Those Winter Sundays, And My Papa's

Poetry is defined as the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts (www.dictionary.com). In the poems Those Winter Sundays, My Father’s Hats, and My Papa’s Waltz, the authors use mood, imagery, simile, and metaphor to describe memories of their childhood relationships with their own fathers. Robert Hayden speaks of his hard working father in the poem Those Winter Sundays. The mood of his poem is somber as he describes a home life that may not have been pleasant. He speaks of bitterly cold Sunday mornings in his home with the metaphor “in the blue black cold”. (Hayden, 1996) However, his father would wake first and warm up the home before his son arose. Reflecting