My Papa's Waltz By Theodore Roethke
The poem‘’My Papa’s Waltz’’by Theodore Roethke is more disturbing than it is happy because
the story has lots of negativity coming from it. For my example,‘’ I hung on like death’’ In this
quote it shows the little boy is scared of him or something around him. The word that got my
attention the more is the death part and that’s not a happy thing. For my second piece of
evidence is when the little boy stated” Still clinging to your shirt’’ along with the death part I
feel they connected because he was scared or shocked.In this part I felt he was terrifide
the clinging part. In addition to my evidence I feel the one piece that stands out the most is,
“At every step you missed My right ear scraped a buckle.” I feel as if he was
the story has lots of negativity coming from it. For my example,‘’ I hung on like death’’ In this
quote it shows the little boy is scared of him or something around him. The word that got my
attention the more is the death part and that’s not a happy thing. For my second piece of
evidence is when the little boy stated” Still clinging to your shirt’’ along with the death part I
feel they connected because he was scared or shocked.In this part I felt he was terrifide
the clinging part. In addition to my evidence I feel the one piece that stands out the most is,
“At every step you missed My right ear scraped a buckle.” I feel as if he was