Tone is an important aspect of literature and families. Just like in literature, tone creates the context in families that shapes the world they live in and determines how what is said will be received. Seamus Heaney's poem "Mother of the Groom" and Robert Hayden's poem "These Winter Sundays" are about families and the type of life a family has to live and has created for itself. In these poems, tone is used brilliantly to convey the family theme of the poems and to give more intensity to the themes. These poems use the same type of language and theme to create a tone full of regret and loss. The tone of these two poems is one of loss and regret. In Heaney's poem, the mother watches her son get married and start a new life with another woman as the main woman in his life. He has grown up and in his mind, he replaces her. The mother remembers raising her son while watching him be taken away from her. As she sits there, she regrets letting her son go and hopes for a future where her son is hers again. Even if it means ...