My Papa's Waltz (Blog 5)

My Papa's Waltz writting by Theodore Roethke. Can be looked at as abusive and negative at first glance. It can be interpeted as a fateher absuing his son. "The wisky on your breath could make a small boy dizzy (l1-2) causes you to think that the fater drank soo much that it affected the child. Putting the poem of to pehaps a negative begining as it continues "My right ear scarpled a buckle" (l12) when we look at this day and age we realate a buckel with a belt used for spanking a child. Although once this poem is re read it is much easier to see that the poet did not intend it to be abusive at all but instead it is recreating a memory of a father and a son waltzing. "Then waltzed me off to bed Still clinging to your shirt." (l15-16) Shows us that the son is not wanting to go to bed but wants to continue dancing or haning out with his father. Which makes us rethink the whole poem from negative to positive because, the son would not cling to an abusive father. This poem is really a great poem and is great description of the closeness of a fater and son. How young children cling to their parents at a young age and everything they do is look at my daddy look at me. However when we get older that changes soo quikely.

The Human Reaction

The idea of watching a loved one falling into the clutches of death seems impossible to swallow. It is only natural, then, that one would beg for that person to hold on as long as they could. We see this very situation in Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.”
We know that our speaker gives us examples of different types of men and how they react to their impending fate. “Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright/…Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight/… Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight” (Thomas l. 7, 10, & 13). This is our speaker speaking about those men.
Then, we see in the last stanza, the speaker switch to his father. “Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray,/ do not go gentle into that good night” (Thomas l. 16-17). We see him begging his father to just resist, a totally relatable and human reaction to the idea of losing one’s father.

Deadly Porphyric Love

            I felt very replusive when I read the poem. I felt like it was very sneaky, which I had already knew about the man at the beginning. He came off somewhat sneaky, and callouse. He seemed uncaring, especially when Porphyria called for him, "When no voice replied," (l. 15), and how he wouldn't hold her at first.
            Throughout the poem, I found nothing but irony. She was willing to give herself to him and he killed her. It made me think that maybe the girl decided to surrender herself to him and knew that she was going to die? Maybe that was why the man was so confident that he was sure "No pain felt she; / I am quite sure she felt no pain." (l. 41-42) and "Her darling one wish would be heard" (l.58). There were many other point of views on whether the man was simply crazy, and we also discussed the reasons why he killed the woman, whether he had good reasons or not (but then, when is murder ever a good reason!?).
            Aonther irony of this story was the last line of the poem, "And yet God has not said a word!" (l. 60)... that is probably the most disturbing line because why would he think God wouldn't say a word? I am not a relgiious person, but according to the Bible, God doesn't need to speak for someone to know that he is there, therefore just because he isn't saying a word doesn't mean he wouldn't punish this man for the evil deed that he had done. I guess it takes a really crazy person to think something in the context of that last line.

The Calling is Dim

In Dylan Thomas's poem "Do not go gentle into that good night" you get a feeling to fight. It gives off the perspecive to live life and don't let death intervein. Do not go quietly into the dark, but rather strive to live. "Do not go gentle into that good night" (Thomas l. 13). This gives us that immage. Once your light goes out inside you, or you travel into the light, you are gone. You leave behind all your loved ones and life itself. People dont want to loose their loved ones. That is why I think that this poem is the speakers frusteration with death. "Rage, rage against the dying of the light" (Thomas l. 3). This gives the mood of the speaker. The Speaker is who is upset at the dimness of the light, not those who are dying. We find out that the speaker is in this mood because s/he is losing a father. "And you, my father, there on the sad height" (Thomas l. 16). Once your light goes out inside you, you have lost. Also once you go into the light you've lost. The message of this poem is to fight, no give in.

Jason Brown

"Stop all the clocks"

The poet A.H Auden creates a very dark and sad tone that begins even in the first stanza. This poem is very easy to relate to when you have lost a love one. Its very easy to sympathize with the poet as it is very hard to lose a love one weather that love one is a lover or a friend I think that becomes irrelavent because, the feeling is the same regardless. "Prevent the dogs from barking with a juicy bone." (L3) the line that does not belong to the poem that seems to throw it off a lot although by the time you are done reading the poem you tend to focus on more important aspects and draw more away from that line. Although that lines tends to create a odd image to the over all imagery of the poem. The poem has a rhyming scheme to the first two lines of each stanza. Although toward the end it changes on the last two lines rhyme. The structure of the poem is very typical. The over all structure is long and drug on causing a mourning effect to the tone of poem. "For nothing now can ever come to any good." Good can be seen as a word that is drug on and on GOOOOOD is almost the way it is read. The last word in each of the lines in the last stanza tend to drag on and on. Causing a good transition into the following line. The first stanza however tends to be choppey and you tend to read it quite the opposite you read it very quick and fast.

The way love works

In the poem "Porphria's Lover" is was to me that this guy was one crazy man. Right away when you read this you see how he kind of feels about this woman that doesn't really know if she wants to be with him or not, but as you read on in the poem you see that the woman leave the place she was at to go see him and she did this on her own. The was a place in the poem at which i didn't understand and to seem it felt as if he was wowed by her coming! "And, last, she sat down by my side/And called me. When no voice replied,/She put my arm about her waist," (Browning l. 14-16) When i read this is was like he felt she is here and she likes me and wants to be with me. He didn't see this coming and was at a shock with her being right there next to him. After this happened he kind of goes crazy in the head in knowing that she wants to be with and he doesn't want her to be with anyone but him and to a sure that he goes off and kills her. I don't think he planned it from what the poem has stated. I found that this poem is interesting and a great reading to see how someone can go from a great state of mind to a totally different one within a few minutes maybe even seconds. There is one thing in this poem that i really can't see happening because why on earth would someone let someone do this. "Three times her little throat around," (Browning l. 40). See three times, its going to be pretty hard to get around someones throat three time let alone two times. Other than that i enjoyed this poem!

The World at a Red Light

I liked poet W. H. Auden’s the poem “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone” because of the way it presents the enitial grief that one feels at the loss of a loved one. When some people lose a loved one especially an imidiate family member one may feel like they just want everyone to just shut up and let them with it in their own way. I originally felt like the speaker was a mother or father who has lost a son. The line “Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves” made me think maybe the son may have died serving his country in a war (Auden l. 8). Although it could be that as with most parents the speaker just feels that their child is literally as the poem says “my North, my South, my East and West,” the devistation that losing someone that important would probably be very severe (Auden l. 9). As the speaker says with the last line “For nothing now can ever come to any good.” this is a very dramatic statement to say that nothing will ever be good again, the speaker has not only lost a loved one of some sort they have also lost hope. (Auden l. 16)

Violence, sex, storms ,Oh My!

I loved this poem, the dark intense emotion, the way browne approaches twisted thought with pure energy. This guy gets so happy and excited he chokes his true love to death, shocking her and shocking god himself. "all night long we have not stirred, And yet God has not said a word!"
Its so disturbing to think that someone could be so crazed with passion and love that they can not hold themselves back, "Made my heart swell, and still it grew While I debated what to do. That moment she was mine, mine, fair,"
Yet once again could see this happening some people especially who have struggle for love, can get real intense emotionally. Emotion of any kind can drive you insane, sadness, anger, love, happiness all can have they're extremes.
This poem also addressed the prudence and desolation of the Victorian era. How people ignored true love and married according to society and how also sex was for procreation not for pleasure, women were not allowed sexual freedom.