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My Papa
Title: My Papa
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 872 | Pages: 3.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
My Papa
In Theodore Roethke’s poem “My Papa’s Waltz,” the author presents to the reader his childhood experience. In the poem, he relates his relationship with his father to a “waltz.” The author’s childhood unfolds as the “waltz” is performed. In this performance, the diction the author uses allows the reader to have many perspectives of the poem. Throughout the work, the author employs vague words to describe his upbringing. Thus, Roethke makes it …showed first 75 words of 872 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 872 total…own meaning to his poem. The reader does this by simply filling in those sort of gray areas with their own childhood experiences. Therefore connecting the readers’ own experiences together with the author’s framework. Creating a poem that is a truly unique to every reader’s personal experiences with their father.
Bibliography
Roethke, Theodore. “My Papa’s Waltz”.The Bedford Introduction to Literature:Fifth
Edtion.EDS.Micheal Meyer.Boston, New York: Bedford/St. Martin,1999.
871-872.
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