Essay Comparing My Papa's Waltz And Those Winter Sundays

Poetry is an odd concept to deal with, it can mean anything from Haiku’s numerical flow to just a short story that last less than 7 lines, poetry can be analyzed from many perspectives from just these small aspects. The euphoria you gain from analyzing poetry is near unreplaceable, because all the ways a person can discourse, theorize, and ponder about simple easily to define words. That’s what makes poetry so wonderful it can be done and analyzed in many perspectives from audience, character, environment, and even the situation it gives people. When looking at the poems My Papa’s Waltz and Those Winter Sundays I see similarities and contrasts between the two.
When you read My Papa’s Waltz it at first seems like a simple rhyming poem ABAB but then you read and there is little to no interpretation to be had, it’s about a drunkard abusive Father beating his young son, no analysis or insight in this poem it is blunt as a sledgehammer the poem is “My drunk, toxic, father beat me”. This is from the narration and point of view from the abuse victim, the kid (You can tell from the second line). The audience can try and convey the word “you” can mean many things, an onlooker, the mother staring in fear or maybe you are the drunken father.
There are only two characters here the child and the Father, the point of view is obviously from the son’s since he is the one who is describing the actions and emotional state of the father. The audience is just an invisible onlooker the word “You” and direct name aren’t