“Poems About Fathers”
“My Papa’s Waltz,” by Theodore Roethke, “Those Winter Sundays,” by Robert Hayden, and “My Father’s Hat,” by Mark Irwin were hard for me to understand at the beginning because of the difficult words they used through the poems. But after studying all the project resources and learning all the term, it was easy to understand them. I noticed at the end that they are very similar poems. The three of them describe different episodes of their childhood.
One of the most impressive things I learned today about poems and writing in general is how the usage of metaphor, simile, and imagery can make you travel to the place that is being described and feel what they felt. My favorite metaphor was the one used by R. Hayden when he …show more content…
I also like another metaphor in that poem. It is found in the sixth stanza where the author states, “I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.” (6). Here he compares the cold to an object that can splinter and break. Another term that I learned was simile. The one that I like the most was the one that T. Roethke used in his poem. He says that, “But I hung on like death:” (3). He clearly compared two unlike things using the word “like”. In my opinion, all he was trying to say was that he was having a good time and did not want to fall off. I also learned about imagery. This term was used when M. Irwin said that, “I was in a forest, wind hymning / through pines, where the musky scent / of rain clinging to damp earth was / his scent I loved” (6-9). He creates an imaginary forest full of pines and musk and compare the scent of it to the scent of his father’s hats. One thing that I really enjoyed was identifying the tones for each poem. I had to read them several times in order to get a better feeling of the tone the writer was using. “My Papa’s Waltz” seems to me to come with a playful and
“My Papa’s Waltz,” by Theodore Roethke, “Those Winter Sundays,” by Robert Hayden, and “My Father’s Hat,” by Mark Irwin were hard for me to understand at the beginning because of the difficult words they used through the poems. But after studying all the project resources and learning all the term, it was easy to understand them. I noticed at the end that they are very similar poems. The three of them describe different episodes of their childhood.
One of the most impressive things I learned today about poems and writing in general is how the usage of metaphor, simile, and imagery can make you travel to the place that is being described and feel what they felt. My favorite metaphor was the one used by R. Hayden when he …show more content…
I also like another metaphor in that poem. It is found in the sixth stanza where the author states, “I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.” (6). Here he compares the cold to an object that can splinter and break. Another term that I learned was simile. The one that I like the most was the one that T. Roethke used in his poem. He says that, “But I hung on like death:” (3). He clearly compared two unlike things using the word “like”. In my opinion, all he was trying to say was that he was having a good time and did not want to fall off. I also learned about imagery. This term was used when M. Irwin said that, “I was in a forest, wind hymning / through pines, where the musky scent / of rain clinging to damp earth was / his scent I loved” (6-9). He creates an imaginary forest full of pines and musk and compare the scent of it to the scent of his father’s hats. One thing that I really enjoyed was identifying the tones for each poem. I had to read them several times in order to get a better feeling of the tone the writer was using. “My Papa’s Waltz” seems to me to come with a playful and