Parents_And_Their_Children

Parents And Their Children Parents and Their Children Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” and Adrienne Rich’s “A Woman Mourned by Daughters” are poems that are based on only one parent. In “Those Winter Sundays” the parent is a father. In “A Woman Mourned by Daughters” the parent is a deceased mother. While reading both poems it is clear that both speakers show regard to their parents; however, there is a concrete difference portraying both speakers with different attitudes towards their parents. In both poems the speakers reflect on memories from the past that involve their parents. In “Those Winter Sundays” the speaker is a child that treated his or her father badly. In “A Woman Mourned by Daughters” the speakers are the departed mother’s daughters. The speaker in “Those Winter Sundays” was reminiscing about everything that the child’s father did for their family, in describing a Sunday “Sundays too my father got up early / and put his clothes on in the blueback cold, / then with cracked hands that ached / from labor in the weekday weather made / banked fires blaze” (Hayden 1-5). The speakers in “A Woman Mourned by Daughters” were reminiscing about how their mother daughters, sundays, speakers, mother, winter, father, woman, poems, mourned, parents, parent, both, very, speaker, rich, hayden, different, treated, towards, one, now, made, love, family, even, children, attitudes, weekday, weather, two, similar, show, reminiscing, out