Perceiving Attitudes
... In these poems, the two narrators deal with childhood memories of their fathers, and word choice makes all the difference in the way their attitudes are perceived. After some close analysis of “My Pap’s Waltz” and “Those Winter Sundays” conclusions about these attitudes can be drawn. ... These two different perceptions, shown by the narrators, lay down the frame work for their attitudes toward their fathers. ... In the end, there where two things in each of these poems that made it possible to tell, with any certainty, what these narrator’s attitudes were about their father’s. ... So seeing that the narrators are opposed in these two areas, one can understand why they had very different attitudes towards their fathers.