Comparative Commentary Text 1 Those Winter Sundays, Text 2 The Boat Essay

Text 1 and Text 2, both have the common theme of tiros. Text 1 is a numbers titled Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden, while Text 2 is an extract of the sententious story The Boat by Alistair Macloed. The purpose of Hayden is to recognise the story and to tell younger people to appreciate their father on the other hand Alistair MacLoeds purpose was to entertain the audience.The common theme are the fathers, both text edition editions tell apart the story and the relationship between a father and a son. Both texts show how they treated their fathers in a careless sort but thence realized they shouldnt have. In text 1 he realizes too late, and he cant do anything to change it, however in text 2 the character realizes just on time and starts loving his father and appreciating what he does. There are several other similarities and differences like the fact that both fathers do hard work and they probably belong to the working class or even to the poorer class.This can be seen as in text 1 the father had manpower that ached from labour in the weekday in text 2 the father is a fisherman. Both fathers dedicate lots of their time and labour to their families, in text 1 the father wakes up really early so he can warm the room for his children to wake up into a comfortable room while in text 2 the father sacrificed his dreams and inclinations and lived a life doing what he really did not want for the benefit of the family. Similarities are also found in the tone.The tone in both texts is regretful. In text 1 the regretful tone is suggested through the description of the father, Cracked hands that ached as this increases our empathy towards the father, furthermore in text 2 the regretful tone is suggested through the description of the fathers action as he burnt and reburned over and over again. This is also to increase empathy. Increasing the empathy helps us connect more to the agent and be able to understand his regret. Another way through which regret is portrayed in text 1 is thought Robert Haydens kick the bucket lines, with the rhetorical question at the end What did I know, This quotation shows how Hayden has now realized how much effort his father had put into the family, this also shows how Hayden feels that it is too late to do something now that he has realized. In text 2 the tone of regret is portrayed not only through the description of the father but also through how the short story develops.The body structure of text 1 is very diverse to text 2, first of all the fact that text 1 is a rime and text 2 a short story. As it was already mentioned, the regretful tone in text 2 is transmitted through the development of the story the story is structured in separates. The structure of the short story is very important as it starts by setting the scene as it describes the good summer. In the second paragraph Alistair MacLoed describes the father and how he suffers and keeps on working, his lips still cracked so that they b led when he smiled, this starts creating a tone of guilt as the character saw his dad suffer and did nothing. In the third paragraph we notice some transformation as he starts to realize the hard work his father does but its in the last paragraph is where we see the biggest change as he changes his attitude and starts loving his father. Structure is also very important in text1, the poem. It is a short poem that contains 3 stanzas.There is no rhyme in the poem as rhyme introduces a happy, joyful connotation Robert Hayden decided not to include rhyme as this poem corresponds to a melancholic and sad relationship between father and son. When it comes to sentence lengths, text 1 contains 5 sentences, they are very different in sentence length as we have a very short one, No one ever thanked him. and really long ones as the fourth sentence, which takes up 6 lines. The poem isnt structured as a poem but as a narrative, if the same text would not be in stanzas it would be a narrative. H owever in Text 2, as the text is structured in paragraphs, we can see how the sentences change depending on which paragraph they are in. For example, in paragraph 2, the one that tells us the dads sacrifices the sentences are long and the use lots of and, this gives a sense of continuous and a sense of repetition, which makes you feel the fathers pain. It is a very effective sentence as it increases the empathy.Both texts have similarities and differences regarding language. Text 1 ends with a rhetorical question, this rhetorical question increases the regret already portrayed in the poem and the feeling of guilt as it is already too late to change anything and antecedently he hadnt noticed his fathers effort. The diction through out the poem is quite simple, as the poem is directed to young people. Robert Hayden employ imagery to create empathy towards the father as he is described as waking up in the blueblack cold and his cracked hands that ached. The use of the address chronic angers suggest tension in the family and opens the possibility of a long lasting fight happening inside the house, speaking indifferently to him also adds into the tip of tension in the house and the use of the word indifferently creates guilt as he treated his dad in an indifferent way.Furthermore Alistair MacLoed, the author of text 2 uses common diction through out the short story, the diction in both texts is very similar. MacLoed uses several times the word and in that location are several purposes for the use of the word and, at the beginning, when describing the fathers effort the word and is used for repetition as it increases the effect of empathy in the sentence. later(prenominal) on in the story the word and is used to link ideas and to establish a good relationship between father and son as the text reads with a happier but still regretful tone.In conclusion both texts have clear similarities and differences as they both shared the topic of fathers and their relation ship with their sons, though they have different purposes and therefore differences.