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"My Papa's Waltz" By Theodor Roethke - College Essays

"My Papa's Waltz" By Theodor Roethke

In Theodor Roethke's "My Papa's waltz" the reader finds a horrid
experiance, the beating of a child by his father, which is told in a way of
a romantic and beutifull dance - the waltz. The feeling one get from
reading this poem is that the narrator, at least at the time in which the
poem is written, does not look at this experience as something bad. He
tries to beutify the experience by making it a waltz. He also, by means of
images and rythem, shows the conflict between the readers, or the way any
other 'normal' man will look at this experiance, and how he sees it, or
wants it to be seen ( although he does not show his father as completley
innocent). It can also be looked upon as the ...

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described as a waltz. The poet is led around the house, dancing - not
beaten around. Which is also brought throu by the meter - trecet iamb - the
beat of the waltz, thus the main image is shown through the meter as well,
giving the reader more of the feeling of a dance in contrast to the
'secondery images' which are more associated with the rough experiance of a
beating. Given such parameters the poet installs some sort of relaxation in
the reader ( maybe even in himself ), in order to make the subject - the
beating - more readable, and lessening the effect of the drunkness and the
beatings, making his father more human. By this dance metaphor the whole
routine of the beating is messeged. The drunken father, his breath " Could
make a small boy dizzy", yet the boy hangs " on like death". The word death
is important, usualy the word death, in love poems, shows truthfullness and
undesputable love, as in marrige one promises to love to death, to never
leave even if what is left is ...

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Added: 4/10/2005 11:59:22 PM
Category: Poetry & Poets
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