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Theodore Roethke's Use of Tone
Title: Theodore Roethke's Use of Tone
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1252 | Pages: 5.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Theodore Roethke's Use of Tone
Roethke's Use of Tone
Childhood experiences seem to be the ones that are recollected most vividly throughout a person's life. Almost everyone can remember some aspect of his or her childhood experiences, pleasant and unpleasant alike. Theodore Roethke's poem "My Papa's Waltz" suggests even further that this concept could be true. The dance described in this poem illustrates an interaction between father and child that contains more than the expected joyous, loving attitude between the …showed first 75 words of 1252 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1252 total…balance negative and positive tones in 'My Papa's Waltz'" (McKenna 36).
Although the dance between him and his father was rough and aggressive, the very fact that Roethke chose to write about the waltz indicates that it is a special moment he remembers sharing with his father. The poet has a remarkable ability to describe the moment and not his feelings. This is what makes "My Papa's Waltz" so interesting and leaves so much to interpretation.
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