"My Papas Waltz," by Theodore Roethke is a great meaningful poem. You won't fully understand the poem unless you really analyize the lines. Not just reading the words but trying to find what the words actually stand for and mean. A lot of people in my class thought this poem was about a father who is very drunk and who is beating his son. But to some people, they think the boy and father are just dancing. I don't really know what to think.
There are lines that give evidence to beating his son and the father being drunk like, "the whiskey on your breath can make a small boy dizzy," or "they romped until the pans slid from the kitcken shelf." Even though these are very explanatory lines, there is still evidence to show how the boy was just very small. For example,"at every step you missed, my right ear scraped a buckle." That could just mean that he was up to his waist.
Also, the line that says,"the whiskey on your breath could make a small boy dizzy," doesn't necessarily mean that hes drunk. He could have had a little to drink but the fact is that your uncertain. The writer doesn't give clear evidence that the man is beating his son and he doesn't get clear evidence that he isn't beating his son. That is why I like this poem so much.
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