relationship and is utterly unjustifiable. Every person has a father and has their own reflections of the personal feelings they have encountered‚ nevertheless these feelings can be those of affection or feelings of resentment. The poem‚ “My Papa’s Waltz” (Roethke) illustrates a son’s reminiscence of waltzing with his father as a young boy‚ painting a picture of love and admiration towards his father. However‚ because the poet seems isolated‚ a reader’s perception can vary throughout the poem. The
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STATE-LEVEL ANALYSIS According to Chittick & Pingel (as quoted in the text)‚ what is important from the state level perspective is how a country’s political structure and political forces and substantial actors within the country cause its government to decide to adopt one foreign policy or another. This is more so given the fact that policy making must occur within the context of a political structure and states are the most important part of that structure. Since the variety involved in the
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The poem My Papa’s Waltz describes a child’s nostalgia towards his conflicted relationship with his father. In this poem the tone of the speaker is 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
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“My Papa’s Waltz” Ambiguity is an element that poets use to interpret something in more than one way. Ambiguity makes a poem strong and weak at the same time because ambiguous tones make people think‚ ambiguity also enables different interpretations of the theme. “My papa’s waltz” by Theodore Roethke’s is an example of a poem with ambiguity. The unidentified persona and the use of diction create conflicting perspectives. An ambiguous tone is used in Theodore Roethke’s “My papa’s waltz” to humanize
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Beach Burial- Kenneth Slessor The 1944 poem “Beach Burial”‚ was written about Kenneth Slessors experience during World War II in El Alamein‚ Egypt. Kenneth Slessor was an Australian poet and journalist‚ who was the correspondent reporting from North Africa. Unlike other poems written about war‚ “Beach burial” is neither nationalistic nor patriotically written and does not commemorate heroes‚ as it tells of enemies uniting in death. The poem is a tribute to the masses of soldiers who died in the
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I chose to write this rhetorical analysis on Kenneth Gambles essay Education Is the Key. The paper is about why education will end violence. He establishes ethos with an anecdote about his personally experience. This established empathy and informs the reader he had friends that died‚ were imprisoned‚ or could have ended up leading better more productive life’s if they had better education. The anecdote also implies that he is an educated man. He has an allusion when he quotes Marcus Garvey. The
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Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel is an amazingly emotional‚ and completely original book. It is a books with a unique plot‚ complex characters‚ and a variety of themes and ideas. This books stands apart from others the second you open it. Told from the point of view of the son of two scientists‚ Ben’s totally unhappy to find his parents are bringing a chimp home. He never asked for it‚ and isn’t welcoming towards Zan‚ the chimp. But‚ slowly‚ Ben bonds with Zan. He
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I am reading a book called Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel. It’s the second book of the Airborn series. This book has 350 pages‚ which adds 350 pages to my reading goal. This book has a lot of awards so I am expecting good things out of this book. This book is about a boy named Matt Cruse. While on the Airship Academy the cadets that are on duty spot a stranded airship named “The Hyperion”. The Hyperion is a long lost ship created by a famous and wealthy inventor‚ and the ship rumoured to have most
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Upon reading Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz” one would think the poem entirely talks about the dance and how it was special and memorable to the speaker just by the title. However‚ this ‘waltz’ is interpreted many different ways in the poem. The poem starts off describing the speaker’s presumed father’s smell of “whiskey on your breath” to show that he was drinking heavily (Roethke 1). This smell can also be described as quite strong because of the fact that it “could make a small boy dizzy” (2). This
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Thesis 1 When first reading “My Papa’s Waltz” I got the impression of an abusive household where the father beats the son and the mother stands idly by allowing this to happen. After a couple more reads I saw the humor of the words explaining a clumsy waltz between a father and son. There are satiric words used leading many to believe that the son is being abused‚ but there are also contradictions in those words which leads in a different direction. My final direction is that the father is abusing
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