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.