The language use and tone indicates similar but somehow different attitudes towards the poets’ fathers. In Plath’s poem “Daddy”, a strong and direct emotion comes from the detestation of her father is revealed, like she says “Daddy, I have had to kill you” (Plath 6) or “Brute heart of a brute like you” (Plath 50). In Roethke's “My Papa’s Waltz”, readers can realize that the poet’s little discontent and fear. While dancing, the boy “hung on like death” (Roethke 3) since he does not believe his tipsy father will catch him firmly. But at the end of the poem, the father puts the boy off to the bed fatherly, which shows that the poet still needs the affection from his
