Topic Proposal

For the poetry essay I will be comparing "Those Winter Sundays" and "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night". These two poems show that the speaker is feeling guilt that they either never got to thank their father's or they don't want their father to die because they are feeling guilty. Both speaker's show that their father's were hard on themselves and that they need to sort of learn to be hard on themselves and get the chores done as well. In the end they realize that their father's were there for them and it is almost too late to thank them. In "Those Winter Sundays" the speaker asked himself "what did I know of loves austere and lonely offices?" (13-14) which shows he didn't realize all his father did for him and his family until he was older. The same thing happened in "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" the speaker says "curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray" (17) showing he never got to tell his father thank you for being strong when you were well and please be strong now. These two poems have simalarities but they also have slight differences. In my essay I will be comparing the differences and the similarities.
Carly Turchin