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Compare And Contrast Those Winter Sundays And The Secret Heart
‘“The Secret Heart”, by Robert Peter Tristram, was about the narrator’s father showing him love by checking on him while he is sleeping, to ensure that the narrator was safe and sleeping peacefully. The poem by Robert Hayden, “Those Winter Sundays”, was about the narrator being ungrateful to his father and did not appreciate the things his father did for him. The theme that both poems have in common was that you should express your love before it is too late. From the poem, “The Secret Heart”, the father had shown his love for his son by making sure his son is safe while sleeping. Another evidence is that the narrator included “Across the years..” This had shown that the father did not show his love once, but many times to the narrator by making
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