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Poetry Essay
(Your family name ) 1 (Your family name ) 2 A Critical Essay on Theodore Roethke 's My Papa 's Waltz How can a poem written more than fifty years ago manage to find a more contemporary reading , and inspire a healthy yet critical discussion between `classicists ' and `modernist ' readers or audiences ? Such is the charm exhibited by the poem My Papa 's Waltz written by Theodore Roethke Even before jumping straight to the discussion of the meat and matter or the content of the poem itself , there is already so much to say about
br the poem if we are to judge its literary merit in terms of form
NARRATIVE STRUCTURE , LANGUAGE AND RHYME
The poem is very easily understood and is presented in a clear chronological , from the time the father comes home , up to the conclusion of the `waltz ' with the speaker in the poem off to bed (Roethke . Because of a clear chronology of events , the poem is light delightful , and yet , remains thought-provoking . The language used is also very light and appropriate , as it is seen that the speaker in the poem is a child and the addressee is the papa , or the father of the speaker (Roethke . Such easy vocabulary is appropriate for the speaker in the poem , thus creating a high level of believability in the reader and lending credibility to the speaker in the poem . We see clearly and immediately the distinction between the speaker and the addressee , and we can also create in...
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