What indicates this poem could be a narrative?

What is the setting of the poem?

Who are the characters?

What is the setting (time & place)?

Who are the characters?

What conflict(s) do you notice?

Paraphrase:

1 Sundays too my father got up early       

and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,

then with cracked hands that ache,

from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze.

5 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,

10 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?

Who is the speaker in this poem?

How does the speaker feel in this poem?

(Think TONE)

List at least one theme of this poem below.