“Those winter Sundays” had a sad and painful tone compared to “Genesis” which has a more pleasant and optimistic tone. One of the reasons I chose to look at the poems in the family album was how different each poem would be. Just like in real life, everyone has a different life story due to their families. Family life is an important part of life and I liked how the author of the poem was able to reflect on his childhood when he grew up. Both of these poems were about the son-father relationship, but about the family as a whole. It's easy to take your parents for granite, but as you grow up you start to realize how grateful you are for everything they did for you. Just because these two poems were two different tones didn't make one better than the other, they were both equally powerful