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“My Papa’s Waltz” vs. “Those Winter Sundays” The poem “My Papa’s Waltz,” by Theodore Roethke describes the scene of dance between a father and his son. This poem deals with affectionate memories of the narrator and his father. The narrator describes a celebration of the father and with his child by dancing across the kitchen floor, where the child had a blast dancing with his father. Robert Hayden poem, “Those Winter Sundays” uses adult narrator to describe the memory of the child towards his distant father. The father used to wake up early every Sunday to be ready for church services. In this poem, the father is not friendly and affectionate, but he made sure that everything stays in order for his child. The two poems deal with a child’s feelings about a parent. Even though the poems appear to be similar, they differ in tone and image. The tone of “My Papa’s Waltz” differ