"My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke
I read all the poems, and this was my favorite. The poem has 4 stanzas, and the 1st and 3rd lines rhyme and the 2nd and 4th line rhyme. Their is also a stop at the end of line 2 and 4. In the 1st stanza their is a sense of smell. When it says "But it hung on like death", it gives you the horrible smell of alcohol breath. The second stanza gives sound. "Slid from the kitchen shelf", makes you imagine the sound of pans hitting the ground. In the 4th stanza, you get the feeling of a clock in your head ticking and "At every step you missed..My right ear scraped a buckle." I think this is a good story to analyze because it has a lot of fluency, rhyming, patterns, sound, smell, and feeling. But, I think the author says in the 4th stanza that implies that more is hurting from his dad's alcoholism.
Justin, I like your work with the imagery here. Remember this should be two paragraphs and should try to look at all the techniques being used.
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