Compare and contrast the two poems, "Little Boy Crying" by Mervyn Morris and "The Toys" by Coventry Patmore.

The poems "The Toys" and "Little Boy Crying" are two similar poems which both mainly talk about a father to child relationship. The poems show the father's point of view as well as the child's, which are quite different, during an event in which the father tries to teach his little son a lesson. As well as their similarities, these two poems have their differences. Both poems talk about how the father has hit his …

…If the child continues playing in the rain then he could get sick, or might fall and hurt himself. The last stanza also explains that the father feels bad about hitting his son, so he doesn't turn out to be such an awful person after all. It also shows that it is normal for a three-year-old to cry so it's not as bad of a situation as it was explained in the first two stanzas.