When I read the poem the first time it was pretty easy understanding what was going on in the poem itself. I understood that the poem was about the speaker's father who never gets the thanks he deserves for helping out the people around him. However, I didn't catch something the first time reading the poem: the father's occupation. After reading the poem the second time, and completing the paraphrasing section of the TPCASTT assignment, I realized that the poem revolved around the father being a lumberjack and going out on these cold winter Sundays and warming up everyone's homes. Also what I didn't realize the first time reading the poem was that his father is definitely taken advantage of for it. The speaker's father seems to contribute all of his time to committing himself to warm up people's homes but never being thanked for his good deed. The author seems to describe the speaker's father as someone who is old and worn out by describing his hands as "cracked" and "aching". Putting this into consideration the second time around made me think about the world today. Often times the elderly are taken advantage of and thus never get respected for what they did do or still do. This poem revolves around generosity being taken advantage of and what happens when people are too generous.
Doing the TPCASTT assignment is definitely helpful in a lot of ways because it helps me understand the overall meaning or the bigger picture in the poem the second time around. Although understanding the author's feelings in retrospect to the speaker's feelings is the most hardest aspect for me to cover, the TPCASTT definitely helps me understand what is going on in the poem and what the overall theme of the poem is meant to be, even if I may be a little off.
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