"My Papa's Waltz" By Theodor Roethke
Beginning of paper
In Theodor Roethke's "My Papa's waltz" the reader finds a horrid
experiance, the beating of a child by his father, which is told in a way of
a romantic and beutifull dance - the waltz. The feeling one get from
reading this poem is that the narrator, at least at the time in which the
poem is writte ....
Middle of paper
.... the second
- cdcd, in the third - efef, and in the fourth - ghgh. The meter is trecet
iamb ( stressed unstressed - three times per line ).
The central image in the poem is the metaphor in which the beatings
are described as a waltz. The poet is led around the house, dancing - not
beaten around. Which is also brought throu by the meter - trecet iamb - the
beat of the waltz, thus the main image is shown through the meter as well,
giving the reader more of the feeling of a dance in contrast ....
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