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Comparing Poems Those Winter Sundays And The Papa's Waltz
Those Winter Sundays and The Papa’s Waltz

With the two poems Those Winter Sundays and The Papa’s Waltz, they focus on the details about the fathers and their life, the fathers and their families, and the characteristics about them. With the details in the poems, it places a setting and helps the reader understand the differences in the poems to describe the fathers and families that make the reader about to pull differences to realize the important factors in the poems. These two poems have memories that will last with the children for a lifetime and make the children appreciate their father.

The tones in these poems describe the differences in the two poems, by helping the young writers describes the fathers in different ways. In “Those

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