My Mother's Countance Could Not Unfrown Itself Analysis

When you first read this poem, one can get a very strong feeling of domestic abuse. In the way the child describes their father in just the first few lines of the poem, it is obvious that there is something happening. Some people say that this poem is about a happy memory of the child's father and past, but it is hard to deny that there is at least some abuse going on. There could be many ways to interpret poems, but the most obvious one is domestic abuse. Some ways that one can conclude this are:
First, “My mother’s countenance could not unfrown itself” seemed to prove that the action of waltzing with a drunken father was inappropriate, especially when this disrupts order. “Could not unfrown” could be interpreted as the mother could not stop
“At every step you missed my right ear scraped a buckle.” the word “buckle” could be a belt buckle which could imply beatings with a belt. The drunkenness of the father and the way the child describes the events in this poem reflect the obvious mistreatment.
But there is another analysis of the poem that reveals a different line of ideas;
The poem for others conveys a message contrary to the first impression that you can form. They interpret Theodore Roethke’s poem as it is, a dance. For example, an older man through the poem remembers his father who was a hardworking employee; one explanation could be when his father would walk into their home after a day’s work with scraped hands. His father was a strong and tough man yet a good man who provided for the needs of the family. This was a story of a boy reminiscing that instance when his father had returned home from work one late evening, he happened to be in a celebration along with his co­workers at a local bar. He excitedly waltzed while entering his home, and proudly picked up his son, swinging him around in a dizzying waltz.
Father and child could be playfully dancing and wrestling in the living