Comparison Essay: The Passionate Shepherd‚ Song‚ My Papa ’s Waltz Love and Hate: Does True Love Conquer All? In recent discussions of love and hate‚ a controversial issue has been presented: can true love conquer all adversity? On one hand‚ some argue that love has its limitation. From this perspective‚ many will claim that familial love cannot conquer a violent home with a violent father. On the other hand‚ however‚ others argue that love can conquer any obstacle that appears in a relationship
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The poem that really stood out to me was "The Whipping" by Robert Hayden I chose this poem because I can relate to the vision the author is trying to make us see. He’s trying to tell us the feeling the mom had. She might have had a lot of grudges against her own son because in the last stanza it states "And the woman leans muttering against a tree‚ exhausted‚ purged- avenged‚ in part for lifelong hidings she has had to bear" she has been mad at him and has been holding back on unleashing all her
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Quynh Nguyen Lynn Hovde English 101 February 17th‚ 2010 The Memory of the Waltz After reading the poem “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke (807)‚ I realized that there are many different opinions about this poem. Some people think that this poem is about parental abuse‚ the other also think that it is about the happy memory of the relationship between father and son. In my point of view‚ the speaker in the poem is expressing his joyful time when he’s dancing with his father. The whole poem
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The Father-Son Connection One of the most powerful relationships someone ever forms is the connection that they have with their own father. “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden and “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke are both poems that brilliantly describe this powerful relationship between father and son. The feelings that the poets have toward the subject are found deep within the two poems often hidden behind how the character feels toward his own father. Even though these poems were published
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My Papa’s Waltz Theodore Roethke was born to Otto and Helen Roethke on born on May 25‚ 1908. As a child his parents and his uncle owned and operated a greenhouse in Saginaw Michigan. Theodore spent a lot of time helping with his father working in the greenhouse. In 1923 his father died of cancer and shortly thereafter he turned to literature. His poem "My Papa’s Waltz" is a very emotionally stimulating poem. Roethke’s use of ethos in this poem helps establish his creditability. He writes
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Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden and "My Papa’s Waltz" by Theodore Roethke‚ a relationship between a father and son are portrayed as both authors reflect on their own childhood experiences. While the two poems have similarities; in that‚ the fathers work hard and believe in stern punishment‚ they also have several contrasting ideas in parenting that separate their respective roles as fathers. In both poems‚ the fathers have worked hard to provide for their family. In "My Papa’s Waltz"‚ the father’s
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In the poem “My Papas Waltz” by Theodore Roethke and in the short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’ Connor they both share some similarities. Both the story and the poem illustrate topics such as family‚ innocence and selfishness. First‚ the stories are about family in “My Papas Waltz” the poem is from the kids point of view where he wants the father the male role to be more attentive and then it switches to the mother were she is shown to be depressed and In “A Good Man is
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Love fuels actions What is real love? Do you show it by doing things for them? In his poem “These Winter Sundays” Robert Hayden uses imagery‚ poetic diction‚ and repetition to explore the theme of you do things for the ones you love because you love them. He uses imagery describing the cold tells the reader what his father has to face to warm the house‚ he follows up the description of the cold with talking about his father’s hands- “and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold‚ / then with cracked
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A relatable story The poem “My Papa Waltz” is a childhood memory involving a boy and his father. Some people think this poem portrays a message of abuse from the drunken father‚ others see the happiness of the relationship. This poem in my opinion shows love between the two rather than hate or abuse‚ because of the imagery‚ symbolism‚ and word choice that Theodore Roethke uses. Roethke starts the poem off talking about the whisky on the father’s breath and how it was so strong it ‘Could make
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was not going to let the present opportunity to play or “waltz” go by the wayside stating‚ “But I hung on like death.” The speaker wanted us obtain a great feel of jubilance once the two started playing. In the second stanza‚ we learn that the speaker and the father’s horse playing was so rough that even the mother of the speaker’s expression on her face told a story of discontent‚ “We romped until the pans slid from the kitchen shelf/ My mother’s countenance could not unfrown itself.” We can conclude
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