Sunday mornings early to add coal or wood to the fire that had burned down to em

Sunday mornings early to add coal or wood to the fire that had burned down to embers overnight. The speaker in the poem is looking back on this memory. What do you notice about the poem? What can you tell about the family and how they get along? What significance does it have that the speaker of the poem speaks indifferently to his father? What significance does it have that his father polished the good shoes? You may have to look up the word austere. Also as you know words often have more than one meaning. The last word in this poem offices refers to service. This might help you to understand what the last two lines of this poem mean.