My Papa's Waltz

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An unwordable love for Papa Love is a kind of emotion comes from your heart that makes the life become more interesting. So, have you ever tried to use the words or sayings for expressing the love towards someone or even your parents? And how can you make that relationship become better? Actually, it’s very difficult to demonstrate in verbal. So, why don’t you say it in writing and in more romantics way is to describe in a poem like Roethke did in “My Papa’s Waltz” which was written in iambic trimeter. Through this poem, he gained his goal in using a number of poetic devices to convey the theme of childhood experience that he used to spend some time on dancing waltz and his good relationship with his father. Especially, the tone in poem gives me the deep impression of the love between the father and son. In the first stanza of quatrains poem, Roethke mentions “whiskey on your breath” but obviously does not portray his father as a real drunkard. Perhaps, at first reading you can feel that his father usually has a habit of drinking after the work. Also, many readers can misunderstand it easily and properly, only because his breath sometimes or always makes his son feel “dizzy”. In fact, the father drank a little whiskey for relaxing because he spent a long day on working hard in a greenhouse. It can’t be avoidable for the child to be overwhelmed by the smell of whiskey came from his father. In these two short lines, there is a contrast in meaning and imagery between the child (the small object) and the father (the large one). Is there any hidden connotation in this? Or is metaphor used to show any hidden meaning? The child in this time seemed to be too small in the hands of the father and could be understood that the child felt so difficult to catch his father’s rhythm of waltz. Furthermore, he was scared a loss of intimacy with his father if he didn’t follow that
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