My Poem Essay

I am planning on writing my essay as a comparison between the poems “Do not go gentle into that good night” and “Those Winter Sundays”. Both of these stories are about a son’s relationship with his father. In the poem “Do not go gentle into that good night” the son is pleading with his father to not die. In the poem “Those Winter Sundays” the son wishes he had realized everything his father had done for him sooner in life. He doesn’t realize this until is he older. In both stories there is a bond between the fathers and the sons. One that seems to not be realized until it is too late. In “Those Winter Sundays” the son seems to be thinking back and realizing he never told his father that he appreciated what he did for him. It is almost as if he wishes he could. Both stories show the bond between father and son that isn’t realized until it is too late. In my essay I want to focus on the father/son bond and how sometimes it is only realized how much your father has done for you when it is too late. In both poems the speaker was realizing what their father meant to them. The speaker in “Those Winter Sundays” realized it when he could never tell his father how much he appreciated it and the speaker in “Do not go gentle into that good night” realizes this as his father is on his death bed and he doesn’t want him to die.