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
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In "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden the story between the speaker and the father embraces the ideas of unseen love and the speaker’s regret. The poem is a result of the speaker’s reflection on his or her past experiences with his or her father. Hayden shows all the little things the father does‚ and how the speaker takes it for granted that the father just kind of did those things. Looking back‚ the speaker has now realized and understands what the father really had gone through for him. The
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‘“The Secret Heart”‚ by Robert Peter Tristram‚ was about the narrator’s father showing him love by checking on him while he is sleeping‚ to ensure that the narrator was safe and sleeping peacefully. The poem by Robert Hayden‚ “Those Winter Sundays”‚ was about the narrator being ungrateful to his father and did not appreciate the things his father did for him. The theme that both poems have in common was that you should express your love before it is too late. From the poem‚ “The Secret Heart”‚ the
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Those Winter Sundays. Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold‚ then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I’d wake and hear the cold splintering‚ breaking. When the rooms were warm‚ he’d call‚ and slowly I would rise and dress‚ fearing the chronic angers of that house‚ Speaking indifferently to him‚ who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. What did
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for their family. The father in “My Papa’s Waltz” along with the father in “Those Winter Sundays” talk about the physical toll of the work on the fathers’ bodies. The poems describe the hands of both fathers as being worn and rough. Also in the poems are two fathers who are strict. In “My Papa’s Waltz”‚ the father is said to beat the narrator’s head‚ implying a tight reign on the narrator. In “Those Winter Sundays”‚ the father is made out to be strict through certain word choice. Ultimately‚ the two
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Winter Sundays” reveal the speaker’s tone for his childhood indifference to his father’s subtle love as well as his adult admiration for his father’s sacrifice. The speaker‚ an adult now‚ recognizes the indifference that was between him and his father throughout his childhood. He now regrets the times when his father worked hard to provide for the family‚ but never was thanked. The father went through everyday life‚ “laboring on the weekdays‚” (4) and “driving out the cold‚” (11) every Sunday. Suffering
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which we live today‚ public thinkers have felt compelled to question our new ethical responsibilities as global citizens. In Globalization and its Discontents by Richard Locke‚ Compassion and Terror by Martha C. Nussbaum and The Sweatshop Sublime by Bruce Robbins the authors challenge us to rethink what it means to be ethical in a global order. I agree with these readings that make the claim
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"Sunday in the Park" by Bel Kaufman begins on Sunday with relaxed mother and father watching their son‚ Larry‚ playing in a sandbox. Its peacefulness is disturbed when another child throws sand at Larry. When warned by Larry ’s mother not to throw sand‚ the overweight child is encouraged to throw as much sand as he wants by his big father. When Larry ’s father‚ Morton‚ confronts the situation‚ he is intimidated at the physical presence of the big man and retreats with his wife and son. The wife despises
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In the story “What’s The Worst That Could Happen‚” by Bruce Coville‚ Murphy Murphy proved that some things won’t end well‚ it’s the experience that counts. Murphy Murphy hasn’t had the best of luck during his lifetime. He doesn’t really know why bad luck has always been with him‚ but what he does know is that it never does him any good. “On the other hand‚ as I lie here in my hospital bed trying to work out exactly how I got here‚ there are times when I wonder if being born dead might not have been
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Bruce Springsteen released his rock song Born In The U.S.A. on July 4‚ 1984. Springsteen was hoping to convey the message that there will always be people out there who mistreat others no matter how hard they have worked in life. Born In The U.S.A. talks about a man who was sent to fight in a war in which he didn’t believe in. That being the Vietnam war‚ and it shows the conflict that was involved with being sent "off to a foreign land to go and kill the yellow man." That line‚ "the yellow man‚"
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