Those Winter Sundays BY ROBERT HAYDEN [1] Sundays too my

Those Winter Sundays
BY ROBERT HAYDEN
[1] Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
[5] banked[1] fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he’d call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,
[10] Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love’s austere[2] and lonely offices[3]?
The Raincoat by Ada Limon
[1] When the doctor suggested surgery
and a brace for all my youngest years,
my parents scrambled to take me
to massage therapy, deep tissue work,
[5] osteopathy[4], and soon my crooked spine
unspooled a bit, I could breathe again,
and move more in a body unclouded
by pain. My mom would tell me to sing
songs to her the whole forty-five minute
[10] drive to Middle Two Rock Road and forty-
five minutes back from physical therapy.
She’d say, even my voice sounded unfettered[5]
by my spine afterward. So I sang and sang,
because I thought she liked it. I never
[15] asked her what she gave up to drive me,
or how her day was before this chore. Today,
at her age, I was driving myself home from yet
another spine appointment, singing along
to some maudlin[6] but solid song on the radio,
[20] and I saw a mom take her raincoat off
and give it to her young daughter when
a storm took over the afternoon. My god,
I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her
raincoat thinking it was somehow a marvel[7]
[25] that I never got wet.
Construct a multi-paragraph response in which you analyze the development of similar themes in the poems. In your analysis, consider how the theme is developed through characters, setting, plot, and/or other poetic devices. Your response must be based on ideas and information that can be found in the poems.
Literary Analysis Essay Outline
Introduction (hook[8], background[9], thesis[10]):
Thesis: Both texts develop the theme that….
How does the first text develop the theme? Support your response with details, examples, and quotes from the passage.
How does the second text develop the theme? Support your response with details, examples, and quotes from the passage.
Compare/Contrast: How do the texts develop the theme in similar/different ways? Support your response with details, examples, and multiple quotes from the passages.
Conclusion (restate your thesis[11], synthesize your thoughts on the topic, and end with a new thought[12]):