My Papa’s Waltz Children often have many different experiences that they endure throughout their young life. In the poem My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke, one such experience is relived. This poem is full of illusions of violence and abuse but overal is written in a playfull tone. When properly analized My Papa's Waltz can be interpreted as a hardworking fauther playfully waltzing with his son, or as a drunken father giving his son a beating. Practically every line in this poem can have two relatively accurate interpretations. Because it is not said throughout the poem as to whether the fauther is beating his son or dancing him off to bed, the author enables the reader to interpret it for themselfs. The very first line points out the whiskey on the fauther's breath, so much of it as to "make a young boy dizzy;" (Roethke 435). This like every other line can be interpreted in two different ways. One could read that and think that the fauther is an alcoholic, or maybe he just went to the bar with a few friends after work.
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