Comparative Commentary 'The Boat' by Alistair MacLeod and 'Those Winter Days' by Robert Hayden
by
lincyy96 (student)
Text 1: Those Winter Sundays – Robert Hayden (1966)
Text 2: Extract from ‘The Boat’ – Alistair MacLeod (1976)
When first looking at these two texts, the texts seem to be totally different from each other. But when you take a closer look, you find many similarities.
Text 1 is a poem from Robert Hayden called ‘Those Winter Days’, written in 1966. Text 2 is an extract from the short story ‘The Boat’ by Alistair MacLeod, published in 1976. Hayden and MacLeod want to teach the reader the lesson to love their father before it’s too late, like it was in the poem of Hayden. They both want to tell a story and entertain the audience.