Comparison Of My Papas Waltz A

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the poet also
relinquishes on a regular occurrence in his childhood. On Sunday mornings,
just as any other morning, his father rises early and puts on his clothes in the
cold darkness. He then goes out in the cold and splits fire wood with which
he uses to start a fire in the house. After the entire house is warm he calls the
rest of his family out of bed. He does not get any thanks for doing this, but
that does not seem to matter.
In both poems the poets seem to look back on their childhoods with
much love and respect for their fathers. In “My Papa’s Waltz” the title
suggests a sense of love and honor. Usually when a child calls his father
Papa they have a very close relationship in which the child respects and
admires his father. Also, the use of the word Waltz suggests a Happy dance
of high class people. This is ironic because Roethke’s father is drunken and
dirty when this dance takes place, but when one thinks of the waltz they ...

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