Compare And Contrast Daddy Digging And Those Winter Sundays

Remembrance of Fathers

In my poetry paper, I’ll be talking about three of the following poems, Daddy, Digging, and Those Winter Sundays. The first part that will be included in this essay will be three quick summaries on Daddy, Digging, and Those Winter Sundays. After finishing that, I will be discussing Daddy vs. internal Conflict on what she had to go through with her father’s death and why she hated him so much. Then after that, I will be focusing on comparing and Contrasting Daddy and Digging, and also be discussing the similarities and the differences on Digging and Those Winter Sundays. Lastly, my conclusion will contain my thoughts about all the poems. Daddy takes place during world war two and it’s about a woman named Sylvia. The woman is having a hard time dealing and
The first one is, in Those Winter Sundays the climate in this poem is winter, while in Digging it is spring. Another one is, that the narrator in Digging is looking down on his father, while in Those winter Sundays he is looking up to his father. Lastly, in Digging the narrator Irish and in Those Winter Sundays the narrator is American. In conclusion, my thoughts on these poems is that, I thought reading these made me sad and sad for the narrators of each of these poems. Because with Daddy, I feel like what she went through was worse than Digging and Those Winter Sundays. The reason why I think that is because women still were not treated as equal as men. For her to go through all of that and be women, I would imagine it being really hard for her.
Digging is the next poem I thought was worst than Those Winter Sundays. Because it’s really hard to grow potatoes to make money or feed your family, when the Potato Famine hit. With that being said, didn’t just cause damage to potatoes, but it caused damage to many crops, which made many of the people in Ireland starve to death or die from the spread