" My Papas Waltz" and "Those Winter Sundays"

      Parents show up for their children and many different ways. In "Those winter Sundays" by Robert

 Hayden the father cares about his family. He makes many sacrifices for them. In "My Papa's waltz"

 by Theodore Roethke, the speaker makes it sound like the father is drunk. Both poems are about the

sons impression of his father and how the father acts towards them.

                  The father in "Those winter Sundays" is a selfless person. For example, in the text, it says,

"Then with cracked hands that ached /from labor in the weekday weather made/banked fires blaze."

 This shows that the father has a very tough job and even on Sundays, which is a day generally set

 aside for rest, is still working for his family. In "My Papa's waltz," the father doesn't seem as nice as

a father in "Those winter Sundays", because he doesn't treat his son well. For example, it explains,

"The whiskey on your breathe/could make a small boy dizzy." This doesn't mean the father drinks all

 the time, but if the whiskey could make someone dizzy then he's drunk. This makes him a bad parent

 because in the poem, he's playing with his son, and seems like they're playing roughly. The father is

supposed to be mature and the one in charge. It also says "But I hung on my death/such waltzing was

 not easy." This shows that the sun loves his father no matter what he does, bad or good, because the

 speaker explains that it was hard to hang on to his father. Or love him.
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             In my "Papa's waltz" the son cares about his father very much. In "Those winter Sundays" the

 son doesn't appreciate everything his father does for him. For example in it says, "Speaking

 indifferently to him/who had driven out the cold/and polished my good shoes as well. This shows

 that the son was not grateful for all his father did for him. In"My Papa's waltz" it states "You beat

 time on my head/with a palm caked hard by dirt/then waltzed me off to bed/still clinging to your

 shirt." The sons are obviously very different from each other, because the son in "My Papas Waltz"

love his father, but his father doesn't show his feelings for his son. In "Those Winter Sundays" the

father does everything for his son, but doesn't get a lot in return.

       In conclusion, these two poems are different in many different ways. They show the same

characters, with different personalities. This poem relates to the world because the fathers and sons

obviously care about each other but it depends on who cares for them.