Also for Julia :)

[I also left this as a comment earlier, but idk which one of these gets more views so here's in case a separate post gets more..]

Just some suggestions..hope they help !

1) The thesis could be a tad more specific, maybe instead of saying "words" you could use the more literarily connotative "diction". 

2) First topic paragraph should mention father as protagonist and/or the lack of appreciation for him, and how the tactile imagery (warmth, coldness) point to that. The rest of the paragraph is solid, analytical, and illustrates this topic sentence I suggest very well, I think.

3) Second body is very good with inferences and analyzation, itd be a good thing to grab a little bit more evidence from the poem, however to back you up. The topic sentence should be more specific and make a claim--which you go on to make undoubtedly well I think. 

4) Great third body. The topic sentence does make a claim--your claim of the use of "tone"--but in my opinion, its very subtle. If you want to make your claim noticeable and undeniable, you could do something along the lines of "tone in this poem does/establishes..."

5) You will want to make some sort of connection with universality, even if you merely just mention it--as its important to New Critics--which, I feel, would be best in the last body paragraph.

Good job overall :))