Practicing Success
Read the poem and answer the following questions
Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blue-black cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked 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,
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 and lonely offices?
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What is the key message conveyed by the poem? |
Experiences of childhood can seem different when looked back on from a parental perspective Experiences of childhood fade away when analyzed later Experiences of childhood do not fade away when analyzed later Experiences of childhood can seem different when looked back on from an adult perspective |
Experiences of childhood can seem different when looked back on from an adult perspective |
The poem explains how experiences of childhood can seem different when looked back on from an adult perspective. |