Posted by Paul Kennedy (68.123.106.49) on June 27, 2005 at 8:38:13 p.m.:
In Reply to: "My Papa's Waltz" posted by Jeanne Guerin on June 27, 2005 at 8:11:04 a.m.:
My first impression is that the poem is about a father who has come home drunk and in lively spirits. The mother doesn't seem happy probably because her husband is drunk again and is knocking the pans from their shelves. But for the child, waltzing with her father must be one her most fond memorys of her father.