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

Overall, it is evident that these two poems are very much similar but the attitudes of the speakers are openly different. The relationship between parents and children is really a special one, which can also go bad if the parent and the child have a different understanding of love. These two poems give very good examples of love and hate between a parent and their children.

Even though both poems seem similar in content, the attitudes that the speakers show towards each parent is different. “Speaking indifferently to him… / What did I know, what did I know / of love’s austere and lonely offices” (Hayden 10,13-14). In “Those Winter Sundays” the speaker does treat his or her father with disrespect but at the end of the poem the speaker realizes everything the father did for the family was out of love. “Now not a tear begun, / we sit here in your kitchen… / You, whom we so often / succeeded in ignori

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