Posted by Emily Frost-Morgan (24.23.57.68) on June 28, 2005 at 1:57:42 p.m.:
In Reply to: Re: "My Papa's Waltz" posted by Lourdes Hernandez on June 27, 2005 at 11:35:02 p.m.:
>Poem by” Theodore Roethke” My impression to this poem I believe that this boy was mistreated by his father. But the boy has a strong mind. I also think that the mother can not do anything about it. Then the rhyme of the last two sentences the “waltzed me off to bed “ is a little confusing. But in the ending says “Still hanging to your shirt” the boy meaning no matter what you do to me I will be here.
I like how you analyzed the poem. I agree with you in that the mother really couldn't do anything about it, because maybe if the son was getting beaten than maybe his mother was being beaten too.