The Man In Those Winter Sundays Essay

Poets create poetry based on their lives and experiences. While reading poetry each reader can interpret what the poem is about. The reader can take those words and relate them back to their own lives. While I read the poetry I related the stories to own life and found that these people have problems greater than mine. Poetry taught me that I need to value and appreciate my life because some people have it worse. Growing up I had two parents that were together and both loved me. My Father was a hardworking man and yet he had no problem showing me love or even telling me that he loved. I found this to be normal for a father to show love to his son but I found out that not every child has that privilege. The man in the Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden reminded very much of my own father until the last two lines of the poem. The poem is about a man who reflects on his life as a child and how his father work hard to keep the family happy. The father warms the house for his kids and also polishes his
A part of that was due to how big and tall I was, so I never had anyone say something mean to me. Although this is quite normal the poem Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy made it stand out to me even more. The poem is about a girl who is made fun during her puberty stage about her large nose and large legs. The poem continues to the point where the girl is basically dead because of plastic surgery and makeup. The author uses a funeral as a symbol by saying “In the casket displayed on satin she lay with the undertaker's cosmetics painted on, a turned-up putty nose, dressed in a pink and white nightie.” (Piercy 239). The symbol of the funeral is used show the death of the girl because her old self died through all the changes made to her body. Due to the fact this barley happen to me I didn’t understand this extreme feeling of change. I am lucky and I know to value that this was never part of my