"My Papa's Waltz" Annotated Bibliography Bogen, Don. "'Intuition' And 'Craftsmanship': Theodore Roethke At Work." Papers On Language & Literature 18.1 (1982): 58. Literary Reference Center. Web. 3 Apr. 2016. This article is a poetry review by Don Bogen. Bogen discusses the work of Theodore Roethke, with focus given to his poet composition process. He analyses' Roethke's writing process. Also, his composition of the poem, "Where Knock Is Open Wide" is spoken about. And his use of symbolism. Janssen
In Walter McDonald’s “Life with Father” and Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz,” the poets give insight into a dysfunctional childhood surrounded by alcoholism, which leaves a lasting impression on the children. The poets use dissimilar figurative language and expressive sound devices to evoke contrasting fearful tones; McDonald fears his father and Roethke fears losing his. The extensive and diverse use of figurative language in McDonald and Roethke’s poems captures the essence of growing up with
reality of how life was around him and also how his poetry was also the reflection of himself. One of these poems that defined the definitions of what was reality was for him is the poem entitled “My Papa’s Waltz”. In analyzing the short poem, literary elements presents themselves are the use of imagery, the different tones of the poem, and the critical approach of structuralism all plays the role in making this particular poem to become a whole.
Father Daddy Papa Walter McDonald’s “Life with Father” and Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz” similarly describes a childhood dealing with an alcoholic father, however, the poets’ experience with the situation differs. In Walter McDonald’s “Life with Father” and Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz” the poets use figurative language and tone to reveal their shared themes regarding the tension and fear of living with an alcoholic father [in their childhood but evoking a hint of affection.] In a
In Walter McDonald’s “Life with Father” and Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz”, the poets revisit their childhoods with alcoholic fathers. Through vivid imagery and metaphors, the poets create nearly inverted images- McDonald’s light-hearted terror and Roethke’s fearful joy- in remembering their fathers. McDonald and Roethke use imagery to describe scenes from their childhood in ways that evoke sympathy in readers. In the opening lines of “Life with Father”, McDonald’s first striking image is
In Walter McDonald’s “Life with Father” and Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz”, the poets revisit their childhoods with alcoholic fathers. Through vivid imagery and metaphors, the poets create nearly inverted images- McDonald’s light-hearted terror and Roethke’s fearful joy- in remembering their fathers. McDonald and Roethke use imagery to describe scenes from their childhood in ways that evoke sympathy in readers. In the opening lines of “Life with Father”, McDonald’s first striking image is
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
”). Roethke shows his struggle of identity as a child, which reflects how he established his identity as a poet. Through the reflections of this work Roethke found his own voice and vision (“Theodore" Contemporary). This collection included “My Papa’s Waltz”, written about Otto Roethke. Many of the ideas in The Lost Son were inspired by the Greenhouse of his childhood, focusing on the growing of nature, and containing many paradoxes. These poems used rhymes associated