Poem Comparisons

            In the poems " My Papa's Waltz," by Theodore Roethke and " Those Winter Sunday's," by Robert Hayden, both express strong impressions of their fathers and how they relate to them. In both of the peom the fathers and sons were very close and they had special bonds. In " Those Winter Sunday's," the narrator talks about how his father would get up early in the morning during the winter to warm the house up. The father did not show his live through affection. In " My Papa's Waltz," the narrator talks about how his father would work hard and drink alcohol to keep him going through the day. The father shows his love by working hard to provide for them and by playing with his child. These poems compare because they both show how their fathers have shaped their lives. They both look back on their childhood relationships with their father.

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           In the poem, " The Negro Speaks of Rivers," by Langston Hughes, he uses the rivers as a symbol of their journey. In the line, " I heard the singing of the Mississippi," he uses personification to make the river sing. The singing river shows the emotions of the African American people. Singing has always been an accepted way of expressing emotion within the African American race. In the line, My soul has grown deep like the rivers," is a simile. It compares his soul to the flow of the rivers. He learns from his experiences and his struggles has molded him. Langston Hughes uses figurative language to illustrate that Black Lives Matter.

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