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This 3 page paper contrasts and compares the themes and imagery in the poems of Hayden, Silverstein, and Roethke. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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are the experiences of children growing up in families struck with crushing poverty and loneliness. Too often the children who find themselves in these situations grow bitter or angry, and
wonder why life has dealt them such a hand. Many children simply accept what is, and make the most of what they have, grasping at any point of kindness offered.
So it is in the three poems by Sivlerstein, Roethke, and Hayden. In each poem the protagonist is faced with the remoteness of a fathers love. In Silversteins poem,
A Boy Named Sue, the main character grows up angry, mean and bitter because the last act his father did before leaving was to give him the name, Sue. And,
as the lines state, life is hard for a boy named Sue. The loneliness and isolation that he experienced from an absentee father haunts him in everything that he does,
and his need for revenge on a father that he never knew motivates his waking hours. In Roethkes poem, the protagonists father is also an alcoholic, but is not physically
absent from him. Instead, this father is abusive. This poem chronicles the beatings that the child has at the hands of his father when his father is intoxicated. He uses
the euphemism waltz to indicate the routine beatings which occurred. Lastly, in Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden, another type of father is introduced. Though alcohol does not seem
to play a factor in this household, the father is just as remote as the other two fathers. He stoically and mechanically lights the fires that keep the family warm,
makes sure that they get up in time for Sunday church. It is clear that the father is poor, his hands are cracked from hard work, and that the family
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