“But I hung on you like death.” The boy holds on like his life depends on it because he is having so much fun, not because he is terrified as it may seem. “We romped until the pans slid from the kitchen shelf; my mother’s countenance could not unfrown itself.” The rowdy danced in the kitchen sent pans sliding across the counter. The wording suggests that the mother may have been trying to hold back a smile. “The hand that held my wrist was battered on one knuckle.” This line seems to point to damage done by abuse the father committed, but upon reading further the father’s palms are caked with dirt. The damage on the knuckle and the dirt on his palms suggests that his line of work is rough on his hands.
Also, if the waltz of this poem is a metaphor for their father-son relationship, this could show that it's not easy to dance between loving and fearing his father's power Lines 5-6 We romped until the pans Slid from the kitchen shelf; This is not a quiet, stately waltz, but a romp! Quite the hoot! This pair is making so much commotion that the pans are falling off the shelf, probably providing quite a chaotic soundtrack. These lines also give us a setting, in the kitchen. A lot of family life is spent in the kitchen – cooking, eating, and, as we can now see, waltzing.
We can tell that the writer resents and is frustrated by his father as it says “and he being him can’t help but say.......... and I, being me” which shows that he is frustrated at their relationship. However the Harmonium is used to describe his father so therefore his family life whereas in Nettles it is reversed. The Nettles, that had caused pain for the boy, is actually describing soldiers and war therefore the underlying message is not about family but about war and the underlying message
Hally’s father, an alcoholic, is an antagonist, suffering from an illness and a drinking problem. Another thing that makes Hally want to go ballistic, is when Hallys father is drunk, he will hit his mother. The father’s drinking problem has a very deleterious effect towards the family’s relationship. When his father is feeling bad, he uses alcohol as a palliative. Hally’s father is an onerous man, because he drinks instead of standing up and taking care of his responsibilities.
Despite Frank's old teachers that bully him and his alcoholic father, Frank doesn’t think of hate or bully other people because of it. Frank's battle against poverty may be seen as one of the most tragic events of this memoir, that may be so, but it's also one of the most important. When Mrs.Meagher goes down to the Dispensary, Frank's mam says, “that's the worst thing that could happen to any family”(224) Frank learns from this that there's always someone worse off than you. Even when things got awful for Frank, he learns to take the good with the bad. He admits that “It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while” (11).
We may attribute the deterioration of English writing with political language. Riddled with so many ambiguous statements, it is commonplace for political language to be written in modernized English. Political statements that are made offer no description of what the statement is truly about, but instead a large labyrinth of words. It is easier to deceive us when statements regarding politics are so vague. Instead of defining an issue, or explaining their intent, the statements they make are often misleading or unidentifiable.
Amir and his father lived with their servants, Ali and his son, Hassan. Despite their social status, Ali was also a very good friend to Amir's father. Amir was jealous of Hassan because he had characteristics his father admired even though Hassan was a poor Shia. Throughout the novel, Hassan is soon attacked by Pashtun boys; wealthy, from the Sunni class. Amir was in the corner of the alley, not having enough courage to stand up for his friend that is soon brutally abused.
Chandler Bing Mr. Jefferson English 3H Period 1 February , 2014 My Papa’s Waltz Child abuse does not necessarily need to be full on physical blows but can be done in other manners. “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke is about a drunken father who is overly aggressive towards his son while the mother does nothing. Theodore Roethke uses poetic devices, poetic structure, and a connection to historical/literary period in “My Papa’s Waltz” to discuss how child abuse is immoral and should not be allowed to occur. The poet uses a simile and imagery to emphasize the child abuse in the poem. One example of a simile from the poem is, “But I hung on like death;” (Stanza 1 Line 3).
Roethke’s work plants very vivid images in his reader’s mind that paint a very clear image of the boy and his drunken father. The readers can almost smell the whisky on the father’s breath; it is as if they are right there with him. The imagery that Roethke uses creates a very loving atmosphere, but at the same time the reader can feel that there is a strain between the family. In the line “But I hung on like death” (3) it is immediately perceived to have a negative connotation. But looking closer it becomes very clear that it is the complete opposite.
He did things most wouldn't find normal. It seems as though Blake had some things against him as a romantic writer. Blakes poetry tended to to have darker meanings than most romantic writers. While that still relates to the romantic theme, Wordsworths warmer poetry might've been the reason he is remembered as the Romantic Movement founder. Wordsworth would write about things related closer to love and with a more positive message.