The two poems “My Daddy's Waltz” by Theodore Roethke and “These Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden are poems in which the speaker (a son in both case) tries to explain his complex relationship with his father. It seems that both poets look back on their childhood as young boys and show a different appreciation towards their father. In my interpretation, "My Papa's Waltz" is about a boy who is excited that his father is coming home to play with him. The only problem is that the speaker's father is drunk and he has a hard time having fun but he held on because of the unconditional love he has for him, as the line "The whiskey in your breath / could make a boy dizzy; / But I hung on like death: » (1-2-3). However, "Those Winter Sundays" is more about a boy who didn't really appreciate his father's tough love and hard work to keep the house warm, as the third verse said "What- what I knew, what did I know / of the austereness of love". and lonely offices? (13-14). Both poems are about a father and a son in the same context, one may be more negative than the other and furthermore gives you different judgment and different attitudes. In “My Father’s Waltz,” the entire scenario takes place in the speaker’s house. . When the boy's father comes home drunk, he plays with him roughly throughout the house, which I think is very inappropriate since he is a "little boy" (2). While continuing to play, they energetically enter the kitchen and drop the pots from the shelf. As the father "waltzes" him into bed, the boy appears to be the one to keep the father from falling while his father loses his balance, he hurts himself with his belt buckle, as he is a little boy. Shown here "Every step you missed / My right ear scratched a loop" ...... middle of paper ...... persistent in working hard and keeping the cold outside and not at home. Looking back, the poets realized that for their father to work so hard and a lot, he loved them unconditionally. I like when he directs because he said “What did I know, what did I know” (13). Overall, both poems are an amazing realization of the past with their father's relationships and a reflection on some positive or negative moments in their lives. lives. While the poet thought that he had a good father when he was young, he looks back and analyzes that his father played with him when he was drunk and was basically the one who supported him during his moment of imbalance. When it should have been the other way around. Even though in "Those Winter Sundays" the boy didn't care about his father's hard work and didn't show any kind of appreciation, he realizes that he was an exceptional father who had a lot to give..