My Papa’s Waltz Theodore Roethke, an eighteenth-century poet who had a way of showing and teaching future generations of American poets to pursue the mysteries of one’s inner self. Roethke, however, had a very hard life. He grew up in Saginaw, Michigan. His father was a German immigrant, who owned and ran his own greenhouse. Roethke loved to read and write in his high school days. When Roethke turned fourteen years old his father passed away with cancer and his uncle that we don’t hear about as
Rufo Liao Mr. Parker English 1B Apr. 16 2017 How Is a Poem? In comparison with other types of literature, poems often have profound or unclear meanings, but with in-depth analysis, poems can turn up somewhat unique. Many people may think that poems take the definition of a short piece of writing where feelings and emotions flourish, but in reality, poems confront more with the “how” factor, how can a poem express feelings or how can a poem turn up unique. Poems truly uniqueness comes mainly from