Essay Comparing My Papa's Waltz And Those Winter Sundays
Poetry is an odd concept to deal with, it can mean anything from Haiku’s numerical flow to just a short story that last less than 7 lines, poetry can be analyzed from many perspectives from just these small aspects. The euphoria you gain from analyzing poetry is near unreplaceable, because all the ways a person can discourse, theorize, and ponder about simple easily to define words. That’s what makes poetry so wonderful it can be done and analyzed in many perspectives from audience, character, environment, and even the situation it gives people. When looking at the poems My Papa’s Waltz and Those Winter Sundays I see similarities and contrasts between the two.
When you read My Papa’s Waltz it at first seems like a simple rhyming poem ABAB but then you read and there is little to no interpretation to be had, it’s about a drunkard abusive Father beating his young son, no analysis or insight in this poem it is blunt as a sledgehammer the poem is “My drunk, toxic, father beat me”. This is from the narration and point of view from the abuse victim, the kid (You can tell from the second line). The audience can try and convey the word “you” can mean many things, an onlooker, the mother staring in fear or maybe you are the drunken father. …show more content…
The way the poem reads out, “The whiskey on your breath” (Line 1), “At every step you missed (line 11), “You beat time on my head” (Line 13), Still clinging to your shirt (Line 14), you can tell that your point of view is that of the Father’s. There are other characters but there’s only the mother who is looking from the outside perspective in fear. This poem is simple but effective in conveying its point, the point of view, the situation, and even how other characters react to the central message and point.
The second poem is “Those Winter Sundays” is about a child who waits for his Father coming home from a hard day’s work, with old age whittle him down with little to no thanks rewarded, the Theme could be many things like fleeting youth symbolized by the lines about the father’s skin cracking and body aging () or Sacrifice how we only hear it from the speaker’s point of view and how we have to hear it from the speaker’s since they’re the ones who miss the Father.
There are only two characters here the child and the Father, the point of view is obviously from the son’s since he is the one who is describing the actions and emotional state of the father. The audience is just an invisible onlooker the word “You” and direct name aren’t
used.
When comparing poems, you need to learn about the similarities and contrast about both of them it is pretty simple, with My Papa’s Waltz being about abuse, hatred, questions, and a son hating his father, while on a complete other hand “those Winter Sundays” can be about a child missing their Dad with affection. Both of these poems have a single similarity, they are about question, the kid in “Those Winter Sundays” is questioning about “what is love and why does my Dad work?”, The kid in My Papa’s Waltz, the child wonders why he’s getting beaten and tries to solve this problem in his head. Both poems are about the child’s point of view and how they wonder and react to the situation, but both have very different situations, one’s about genuine love and physical abandonment and the others about abuse and emotional abandonment.
When you read My Papa’s Waltz it at first seems like a simple rhyming poem ABAB but then you read and there is little to no interpretation to be had, it’s about a drunkard abusive Father beating his young son, no analysis or insight in this poem it is blunt as a sledgehammer the poem is “My drunk, toxic, father beat me”. This is from the narration and point of view from the abuse victim, the kid (You can tell from the second line). The audience can try and convey the word “you” can mean many things, an onlooker, the mother staring in fear or maybe you are the drunken father. …show more content…
The way the poem reads out, “The whiskey on your breath” (Line 1), “At every step you missed (line 11), “You beat time on my head” (Line 13), Still clinging to your shirt (Line 14), you can tell that your point of view is that of the Father’s. There are other characters but there’s only the mother who is looking from the outside perspective in fear. This poem is simple but effective in conveying its point, the point of view, the situation, and even how other characters react to the central message and point.
The second poem is “Those Winter Sundays” is about a child who waits for his Father coming home from a hard day’s work, with old age whittle him down with little to no thanks rewarded, the Theme could be many things like fleeting youth symbolized by the lines about the father’s skin cracking and body aging () or Sacrifice how we only hear it from the speaker’s point of view and how we have to hear it from the speaker’s since they’re the ones who miss the Father.
There are only two characters here the child and the Father, the point of view is obviously from the son’s since he is the one who is describing the actions and emotional state of the father. The audience is just an invisible onlooker the word “You” and direct name aren’t
used.
When comparing poems, you need to learn about the similarities and contrast about both of them it is pretty simple, with My Papa’s Waltz being about abuse, hatred, questions, and a son hating his father, while on a complete other hand “those Winter Sundays” can be about a child missing their Dad with affection. Both of these poems have a single similarity, they are about question, the kid in “Those Winter Sundays” is questioning about “what is love and why does my Dad work?”, The kid in My Papa’s Waltz, the child wonders why he’s getting beaten and tries to solve this problem in his head. Both poems are about the child’s point of view and how they wonder and react to the situation, but both have very different situations, one’s about genuine love and physical abandonment and the others about abuse and emotional abandonment.