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Theodore Roethke My Papa's Waltz Analysis

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Waltzing Through the Pain
Imagine growing up in a house where your father was drunk and your mother would keep quiet, all you have to hold on to are the good memories. This is what it was like for the little boy growing up in the poem “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke. The young boy loved his father dearly even though he would get beat by his drunk father. When his father died things changed, all he has left is the good memories. The boy struggles to cope with his father's passing, the boy is having a negative experience. Theodore Roethke had a hard life as a child, his father passed away from cancer when he was only fifteen years old. Roethke was very close to his father, he would follow in around everywhere. He admired his dad working
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