Tone is an important aspect of literature and families. Just as in literature, tone creates the context in families that shapes the world they live in and determines how what is said will be received. Seamus Heaney's poem “Mother of the Groom” and Robert Hayden's poem “These Winter Sundays” are all about families and the kind of life a family must live and have created for themselves. In these poems the tone is used brilliantly to convey the familiar theme of the poems and to give the themes greater intensity. These poems use the same type of language and theme to create a tone full of remorse and loss. The tone in both of these poems is one of loss and regret. In Heaney's poem the mother watches her son get married and start a new life with another woman as the main woman in his life. He has grown up and in his mind he is replacing her. The mother remembers raising her son as she watched him be taken away from her. As she sits there, she regrets letting her son go and hopes for a future where her son is hers again. Even if it means ...