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    writer is being sarcastic because the writer goes on and describes how delicious‚ sweet‚ and cold the plums were. To me‚ it seems like the writing is rubbing it in the reader’s face. The poem is a poem of irony. The poem “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke is a story of a father and son that danced around the house one night. When he says “The whiskey on your breath could make a small boy dizzy”‚ tells us that the father has been

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    only a personal problem that dramatically affects an individual’s lives‚ but moreover those that surround such a life. In the essay “Under the Influence” by Scott Russel Sanders‚ he expresses his emotions through a poem. “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke. “The whiskey on his breath could make a small boy dizzy; but hung on like death; such waltzing was not easy.” (258). This poem is one of many effective devices that Sanders uses to clearly and decisively convey to us the readers of how profound

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    Interpretation of “My Papa’s Wallet” “My Papa’s Waltz” was written by Theodore Roethke‚ which is a stanza poem with 16 lines. The narrator of the poem seems to be a young child speaking about an experience with his drunken father. In this poem the father came home after a night of drinking. As the father enters the house he grabs the child by the wrist with his battered knuckles‚ which indicates that he works with his hands. Playfully knocking down the pans‚ the mother irritated gives them an

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    "In a dark time‚ the eye begins to see‚ . . . " comes from a 1966 poem by Theodore Roethke. I believe it is a dark time as far as our understanding of the world around us and yet I also believe that in some way darkness can enlighten us. To me this quote means that during hardships is when people begin to understand. I disagree with this quote because when a person is in a dark period of their life they often loose the ability to understand thing clearly. Just as in the two plays A Streetcar Named

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    environment‚ capture animals to extinction for their benefits. There have been a lot of calls for respecting and protecting nature. The poems “The Author of American Ornithology Sketches a Bird‚ Now Extinct” by David Wagoner and “Moss Gathering”‚ by Theodore Roethke in A Book of Luminous Thing‚ do a good job representing this in their poems. They are similar in the way that they involve both human and

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    ‘The Waking’ is a contemporary jazz piece written by American vocalist‚ Kurt Elling‚ and features Theodore Roethke’s 1954 poem of the same title. Released in 2007 on the album Nightmoves‚ Elling uses musical techniques to enhance the message of Roethke’s poem. However‚ in order to understand the reasoning behind the devices Elling has used‚ the meaning of Roethke’s poem must first be discussed. Roethke wrote ‘The Waking’ after a series of intense poems such as ‘Praise to the End!’ and in it he describes

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    The poem‚ My Papa’s Waltz written by Theodore Roethke could be interpreted in two extreme ways. I interpreted the poem with a very negative undertone. When reading the title one can assume that the story will be told from a point of view from a child talking about dancing with his father. Just by seeing that‚ the scene is set and there is no sense of negativity in the following lines. Immediately from reading the title‚ the reader is made aware that the speaker of the poem will most likely be a

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    second to study the psychology of the writer‚ and third to investigate whether it relates to abnormal mental functions (Kaye par. 3). Using these three ways of psychoanalysis‚ I analyzed the poems “Digging” by Seamus Heaney‚ “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke‚ and “Lady Lazarus” by Sylvia Plath and discovered how the mental state of the author affects the characters and tone of their writing. Seamus Heaney ’s "Digging” opens with the author at his desk‚ pen in hand‚ and beginning to write. The first

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    Cited: RoethkeTheodore. "My Papa ’s Waltz." Lives through Literature. Ed. Helane L. Keating and Walter Levy. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall‚ 2001. 102. Print.

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    his role in my life‚ in perspective. It’s a process that’s been happening as he slowly faded over the past few years‚ and will continue as the grass grows over his grave. (A friend‚ unfortunately‚ does the same thing with “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke. You can go to the Poetry Foundation page here for that sad poem.) The poem guide for “Those Winter Sundays” and related content tabs (including teaching tips) on the Poetry Foundation site are good‚ and can be

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