Posted by Amber Sughrue (64.30.110.147) on June 27, 2005 at 12:46:50 p.m.:
In Reply to: Re: "My Papa's Waltz" posted by Amber Sughrue on June 27, 2005 at 11:08:38 a.m.:
While reading about the poem, it showed how some of the lines warned of danger, however it ended with the safety of returning to bed. This poem is confusing because the reader is not sure about its meaning. There seems to be a lot of connotation and dangerous images, especially with references to "The hand that held my wrist/Was battered on one knuckle" (Roethke, 672). I also noticed the rhyming more when analyzing it and the rhythm to the meter that evokes the feeling of a waltz.