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The Waking By Theodore Roethke Analysis

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Above are the first three stanzas of poem “The Waking” by Theodore Roethke. There are six stanzas but I think the first three stanzas basically covers the whole message that this poet is trying to get out according to my point of view , but let’s go deep into this poem and find out more about this!, and yes I do think this poem title is significant because its talking about the routine behavior that basically every human being goes through at some point in their life. This poem is basically taking dead aim on the eternal. This poem is a villanelle, and elaborate fixed form of five tercets and quatrain. This villanelle is built with only two rhymes, with two keys of first stanzas alternately repeated as the last line of two of each tercet and
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