“My Papa’s Waltz”
Author Theodore Roethke wrote “My Papa’s Waltz”. Is a poem where the father is introduced as papa, and son is helping the father once more as they reenact the waltz through the house because he has been drinking too much.
The son, and father have a close relationship because he doesn’t call him dad or “father” like most do. The young boy calls him “papa” in the poem as he helps him through the kitchen. Since papa is drunk again, the mom who is also there does not help him, and doesn’t even bother. Only mentioning she is not happy and can’t unfrown her expression. That’s where you can sense that this is not the first time that “papa” has gotten drunk like this. There is nothing the mom can do, she is unhappy with him. In this …show more content…
This happens after the father gets off of work, and starts drinking whiskey. This was wrote in 1948 about 68 years ago. After working a long hard day the father drink’s a little too much and can’t handle himself. As the son kindly helps his father walk as he is stumbling around when he is trying to walk. Papa comes home from working somewhere, where his hands are able to become filled, and caked with dirt. Papa’s drunk and it’s not the first time, his son helps him as they stumble the waltz in the house. The mom does not bother to help, and as they romped through the kitchen into the bed room of the little boy. Its night and time for the son to go to sleep. Also smelling the whiskey on his breath was almost too hard to bare and handle. Descriptions of the poem in “My Papa’s Waltz” conveys the emotions of a boy as he experiences this late night dance with his father. He attempts to beautify the experience by creating it into a waltz. He also, by means of images and rhythm, show the conflict how he sees it, or wants it to be seen. The poem has four stanzas built together consisting of four lines, the …show more content…
Many people consider that this poem has one of a blissful affiliation between father and son. Others believe that the poem has a hidden, and unseen message of parental abuse. “The imagery and language, the symbolism, and tone in the poem gave me the impression of love between the father and son, not of an abusive relationship”. This poem is roughly about, a father coming home drunk and starts to dance the waltz with his son as he puts him to bed. In line 3, “but I hung on like death”, the small boy hung onto his shirt because he didn’t want to get dropped or fallen while dancing with his Papa. If the child was receiving any abuse his mother would react more than a frown, “my mother’s countenance could not unfrown itself” (Line 7-8). The mother was upset from the time when her pots and pans started flying in all places. In line 15, “still clinging to your shirt” the boy is holding onto his father’s shirt maybe since he doesn’t really want to go to bed and wants to remain playing with his father. By seeing the poem does not propose an abusive setting, situations but is a sturdy bond and playfulness among a father and son. Interpreter the poem literally, and it’s clear the young son is remembering when he and his father waltzed around the home. The father is intoxicated, but that does not make him an alcoholic, for if you interpret the poem literally, the poem is one full scene, but if not interpreted
Author Theodore Roethke wrote “My Papa’s Waltz”. Is a poem where the father is introduced as papa, and son is helping the father once more as they reenact the waltz through the house because he has been drinking too much.
The son, and father have a close relationship because he doesn’t call him dad or “father” like most do. The young boy calls him “papa” in the poem as he helps him through the kitchen. Since papa is drunk again, the mom who is also there does not help him, and doesn’t even bother. Only mentioning she is not happy and can’t unfrown her expression. That’s where you can sense that this is not the first time that “papa” has gotten drunk like this. There is nothing the mom can do, she is unhappy with him. In this …show more content…
This happens after the father gets off of work, and starts drinking whiskey. This was wrote in 1948 about 68 years ago. After working a long hard day the father drink’s a little too much and can’t handle himself. As the son kindly helps his father walk as he is stumbling around when he is trying to walk. Papa comes home from working somewhere, where his hands are able to become filled, and caked with dirt. Papa’s drunk and it’s not the first time, his son helps him as they stumble the waltz in the house. The mom does not bother to help, and as they romped through the kitchen into the bed room of the little boy. Its night and time for the son to go to sleep. Also smelling the whiskey on his breath was almost too hard to bare and handle. Descriptions of the poem in “My Papa’s Waltz” conveys the emotions of a boy as he experiences this late night dance with his father. He attempts to beautify the experience by creating it into a waltz. He also, by means of images and rhythm, show the conflict how he sees it, or wants it to be seen. The poem has four stanzas built together consisting of four lines, the …show more content…
Many people consider that this poem has one of a blissful affiliation between father and son. Others believe that the poem has a hidden, and unseen message of parental abuse. “The imagery and language, the symbolism, and tone in the poem gave me the impression of love between the father and son, not of an abusive relationship”. This poem is roughly about, a father coming home drunk and starts to dance the waltz with his son as he puts him to bed. In line 3, “but I hung on like death”, the small boy hung onto his shirt because he didn’t want to get dropped or fallen while dancing with his Papa. If the child was receiving any abuse his mother would react more than a frown, “my mother’s countenance could not unfrown itself” (Line 7-8). The mother was upset from the time when her pots and pans started flying in all places. In line 15, “still clinging to your shirt” the boy is holding onto his father’s shirt maybe since he doesn’t really want to go to bed and wants to remain playing with his father. By seeing the poem does not propose an abusive setting, situations but is a sturdy bond and playfulness among a father and son. Interpreter the poem literally, and it’s clear the young son is remembering when he and his father waltzed around the home. The father is intoxicated, but that does not make him an alcoholic, for if you interpret the poem literally, the poem is one full scene, but if not interpreted