My Papa's Waltz By Theodore Roethke

I do agree that We real cool was about the new generation being rebellious. It also provides insight to people that may be going down the wrong path. This path will eventually lead you to death. I feel that the writer was trying to send a message to young people to not follow in this path of drinking, skipping school and breaking the rules. However in My papa’s waltz I felt that the theme was about a young child with an alcoholic father that never pays attention to him. When the father dances with the child he is mesmerized by it and so happy that his father is actually paying attention to him. In the poem My papa’s waltz by Theodore Roethke it states that “My mother's countenance Could not unfrown itself” (1942). I feel that this line shows