A Critical Review of My Papa’s Waltz and Daddy
In My Papa’s Waltz, Theodore Roethke tells the relationship between the father and the son. Their waltz causes the father and son to destroy the kitchen so the mother to become upset. The author Sylvia Plath in Daddy used figurative image to describe the girl’s father. Daddy uses many different metaphors to show her relationships with her daddy. This poem also shows that the girl did not want anything to do with her father. This paper will analysis Theodore’s and Plath’s character traits and tone in both poems.
The characters in My Papa’s Waltz and Daddy have something in common with their character traits. In My Papa’s Waltz, the reader could tell the son and father are having problems based …show more content…
After reading the poem by Plath based on this quote “Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I am through” (80) the girl seems to be releasing all her anger towards her father. The author of “My Papa’s Waltz” is setting a tone that he could comprehend. The little boy in “My Papa’s Waltz” did not have any hard feelings about his father. In “Daddy”, it shows that the girl hates her father for what he did. In “My Papa’s Waltz”, based on this line from the poem ‘the hand that held my wrist was battered on knuckle” (9-10) the reader could tell that the child has been abuse. While in “Daddy” the little girl was not physically wounded but emotionally.
This critical analysis has compare and contrast the two poems “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke and “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath. In “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath the little girl dislikes her dad for what he did. In “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke the son is having a hard time in the kitchen with his father. The tone in Daddy was set to be hatred. But in My Papa’s Waltz the author was setting a tone that he could comprehend. My papa’s waltz and Daddy had some similar character trait. Both of the poem also had some contrast in the different
In My Papa’s Waltz, Theodore Roethke tells the relationship between the father and the son. Their waltz causes the father and son to destroy the kitchen so the mother to become upset. The author Sylvia Plath in Daddy used figurative image to describe the girl’s father. Daddy uses many different metaphors to show her relationships with her daddy. This poem also shows that the girl did not want anything to do with her father. This paper will analysis Theodore’s and Plath’s character traits and tone in both poems.
The characters in My Papa’s Waltz and Daddy have something in common with their character traits. In My Papa’s Waltz, the reader could tell the son and father are having problems based …show more content…
After reading the poem by Plath based on this quote “Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I am through” (80) the girl seems to be releasing all her anger towards her father. The author of “My Papa’s Waltz” is setting a tone that he could comprehend. The little boy in “My Papa’s Waltz” did not have any hard feelings about his father. In “Daddy”, it shows that the girl hates her father for what he did. In “My Papa’s Waltz”, based on this line from the poem ‘the hand that held my wrist was battered on knuckle” (9-10) the reader could tell that the child has been abuse. While in “Daddy” the little girl was not physically wounded but emotionally.
This critical analysis has compare and contrast the two poems “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke and “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath. In “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath the little girl dislikes her dad for what he did. In “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke the son is having a hard time in the kitchen with his father. The tone in Daddy was set to be hatred. But in My Papa’s Waltz the author was setting a tone that he could comprehend. My papa’s waltz and Daddy had some similar character trait. Both of the poem also had some contrast in the different