My Papa’s Waltz is a poem written by Theodore Roethke explained the experience he had with his father during his childhood. The poem has a unhidden message of child’s father abused. Roethke used some strong words to describe his father abused. Words like death romped, scraped, frown, palm; just to name a few. The child was abused by his drunken and violent father. First and Foremost, no happy kid with happy childhood will describe his relationship with his father as Roethke did in his poem. It is obvious that his father beat him when he was drunk. The author started the poem with “the whiskey on your breath could make a small boy dizzy.” This sentence simply means his dad was plastered. His intoxicated level was too high to make his son
