My Papa’s Waltz Summary Lines 1-2 The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; Judging by the title, the person addressed in these lines is the small boy's father, and the small boy is our speaker. The father has been drinking whiskey, and not just a little. He's so drunk that even the smell of his breath could make a small boy, like his son, feel a bit woozy. These lines show that the poem will address the father in the second person, referring to him as "you." But we don't think he's actually there with the boy because, after all, we hear nothing back from the man.
It is also important to note that the father had been drinking. It is quite possible that the boy held on for his own protection, seeing as his father could drunkenly drop him at any time. The boy obviously trusts the father to hold him either way. As I continued through the poem I got the message that the mother probably wasn’t as outgoing as the father. According to line 8, she seemed displeased with the father’s frivolous behaviors with their son in the kitchen.
The first two lines of that tercet makes one think that the father is either working at a harsh labor facility or he is occasionally punching objects or people. The speaker used words such as “battered” to describe how his father’s knuckles looked. The third and fourth line of that stanza illustrate that the dad is actually not abusive or at least not all the time even though one of his knuckles was battered. In these couple of lines the reader can tell that that the child cared about his father because every time the dad tripped and missed a step, he would hurt his self by
Why do we have to pay for other peoples mistakes? In the book “Flight” by Sherman Alexie Zits deals with many disappointments in life. One of his biggest disappointments is not having a father or someone that loves him like he wants to be love, “My father was a drunk, too more in love with beer and vodka than with my mother and me. He vanished like a cruel magician about two minutes after I was born” (Alexie4). This most of been hard for him to know that his dad didn’t care for him and that he only cared about his beer and vodka.
Brittney Lindsey Professor Howard English 102 29 Mar 2013 Journal 1 In The poem “My Papa Waltz”, the relationship between the speaker and his father is an abnormal relationship, his father is engaging his child in his drunken activities .Before the child drifts of to sleep, he gets the opportunity to dance with his father .The Father is so drunk that the alcohol on his breath second handily intoxicates his son and makes him dizzy along with the fast paced dancing. Even though this dancing is an annoyance to his mother, and the child is well aware of this. The son continues to hold on to his drunken father in comfort no matter what the circumstances are. I feel like the son is gaining comfort from his father because, he may not receive any attention at all from his father when he is sober and this is his only opportunity to bond with his father even though he is intoxicated with alcohol. In “The Secretary’s Chant” The speaker turns herself into a machine in comparison to the objects that surround her in her everyday scene as a secretary.
When he thinks of the hyperactive grandfather he sees his own father jubiously playing with his two sons as opposed to the youthful old man by the fire in the other version. Lastly he turns to the old gentleman next to him drinking alone in silence. These are the stages of man he thinks but one question is raised after he thinks of the seven which is he on that note the video fades to
These gloves belonged to Jackie’s father, and he wants Billy to inherit the gloves, so he can be as good as his grandfather. But what Jackie does not know, is that Billy has a secret, and Jackie keeps being satisfied with his son’s work, as a boxer. In another scene, Billy is telling his father that he wants to go to ballet. Jackie says that boys are supposed to play football, boxing or wrestling and not ballet, and he gets very confused. I think that Jackie feels that Billy now is a shame for the family, because of what he is doing, and he cannot really see why Billy should do something as ridiculous as ballet.
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).
“My Papa’s Waltz” The vagueness of “My Papa’s Waltz” makes it difficult to be certain what it is about. Some might argue that the poem is a tale of child abuse, but it is more likely telling the story of a father and son’s horseplay. “The whiskey on your breathe could make a small boy dizzy.” This line doesn’t refer to the father as being stumbling drunk. Many people have an evening drink without getting drunk. “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.
A child danced out of the mines ‘Billy Elliot’ directed by Stephen Daldry is about a child called Billy, who is the son of a miner. Billy’s father, Jackie Elliot (Gary Lewis) refuses to believe that Billy loves ballet. Tony Elliot (Jamie Draven) follows his father’s opinion believing that Men do football, or boxing, or wrestling not friggin ballet. This family drama with its stunning cast, soundtrack, and memorable symbols, these reinforces the idea of following one’s dream no matter what obstacles. ‘Billy Elliot’ tells the story of a young 11 year old boy, born into a miner’s family during the 1984 British miner’s strike.