Theodore Roethke My Papas Waltz Analysis

My Papas Waltz, written by Theodore Roethke writes a poem about his childhood, and his drunk father who he never seemed to have a problem with, until he saw his father was harming him in a sense. The first stanza was talking about how he could smell his fathers breath, the smell of whisky, but he still danced on. The second stanza was still about them dancing and going on just messing around. The third stanza then starts to go away from the innocence and talk about the violence that was happening to him. The last stanza was about him being fine with the situation, and still loving his father for the state he is in.

The first stanza of the poem was able to add rhyming and add emphasis of the scenerio and the stuff that was going on. He had