“These Winter Sundays” had a sad and sad tone compared to “Begotten” which has a more pleasant and optimistic tone. One of the reasons I chose to look at the poems in the family album was the diversity of each poem. Just like in real life, everyone has a different life story because of their family. Family life is an important part of life and I liked how the speaker of the poem was able to look back on his childhood after growing up. These two poems spoke of the child-father relationship, but also of the family as a whole. It's easy to think of your parents as granite, but when you grow up, you begin to realize how grateful you are for everything they did for you. Just because these two poems had two different tones doesn't mean one was better than the other, they were both equally powerful in their