As I listened to “My Papa’s Waltz” being read aloud I felt a connection to it; a connection that I did not feel when I read it to myself. When I heard the poem aloud I was able to connect it my own life and the drunken “waltz” of a hard working father taking his son to bed. The performance added to the poem because it brought the words to life. I am a hearing learner so listen to the poem made it easier for me to comprehend it. However the performance did not change my perception of the poem
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“My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke and‚ “Piano” by D. H. Lawrence both recollect a childhood memory. The two poems are also different eventhough they are talking about a childhood memory. The poems have the same background‚ but in “My Papa’s Waltz” it is a boy and his father and in “Piano” it is a boy and his mother; one is positive and one is negative; and lastly the feeling of each poet is different in each poem. Eventhough the two speakers share a childhood memory with a parent‚ the gender
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A Strategy for Protecting Irrawaddy Dolphins in the Mekong Delta Region. Huyen Tran‚ jessi00tran@gmail.com Bunker Hill Community College Honors Program‚ Boston Massachusetts Introduction Problem Solutions The Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella Brevirostris)‚ which are considered as the Mekong’s spirit‚ have developed a mutually beneficial relationship with fishermen in the Mekong Delta and the river’s branches in Laos‚ Vietnam and Cambodia. In spite of its important role to many provinces along the Mekong
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Love Found Within Both poems are about a man’s memories of his boyhood relationship with his Father. However‚ the experiences are very different. In " Those Winter Sundays" the father son relationship is carried by both father and son’s in ability to communicate their love for each other. The total opposite is found in " My Papa’s Waltz‚" the love and communication is all present. With or without the communications it is clear‚ that the fathers love for his son and family is unconditional. "Those
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Analysis of Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz” Theodore Roethke’s poem “My Papa’s Waltz” illustrates a nightly ritual between a working-class father and his young son. In the first stanza a young boy holds tightly to his father. The second stanza describes a playful roughhousing between father and son. The fourth stanza shows again the boy’s unwillingness to let go of his father. Roethke’s AB rhyming scheme and waltz-like meter set a light and joyful cadence. The music of the waltz comes through
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romped until the pans Slid from the kitchen shelf; My mother’s countenance Could not unfrown itself” (Roethke‚ n.d.). The waltz is a metaphor for not only the dance but the relationship between a father and son. The imagery of a small boy who is perhaps up too late and his father perhaps has had too much to drink is illustrated by the line “The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy” (Roethke‚ n.d.). But the father waltzes the small boy to bed while he clings to his shirt. The boy is scraped
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characterized by the deep devotion and love he felt towards his father during his youth. Looking back on the time his father spent playing with him when he was a child‚ the speaker describes “[hanging] on like death” and “clinging to [his] shirt” (Roethke 3‚16). These childlike descriptions show that the speaker felt a deep devotion to his father and had a loving relationship with him. The terms “hanging on” and “clinging” both signify the tone of loving dependence of child to father. This reliance
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Elegy For Jane By Theodore Roethke Theodore Roethke’s “Elegy for Jane” is a poem of a teacher’s reaction to the tragic death of one of his students‚ Jane. The speaker expresses his sentiments to his deceased student‚ allotting the fact that he had developed some kind of feeling towards Jane. “Over this damp grave I speak the words of my love: I‚ with no rights in this matter‚ Neither father nor lover.” Roethke illustrates the affiliation between the speaker and his student with this line. Society
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almost the same meaning as “I could see his quiet face in the rearview mirror‚ eyes like hallways filled with smoke” from “Nighttime Fires.” Both phrases identify their father’s bumpiness and conveys a picture of physical assault to the reader. Roethke states‚ “We romped until the pans slid from the kitchen shelf” and Barreca expresses‚ “When I was five in Louisville we drove to see nighttime fires.” These phrases identify the shared struggle experienced by both authors in their poems. They share
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