my papas waltz
In Theodor Roethkes "My Papas waltz" the reader finds a horrid experiance, the beating of a child by his father, which is told in a way of a romantic and beutifull dance - the waltz. ... He tries to beutify the experience by making it a waltz. ... The central image in the poem is the metaphor in which the beatings are described as a waltz. ... Which is also brought throu by the meter - trecet iamb - the beat of the waltz, thus the main image is shown through the meter as well, giving the reader more of the feeling of a dance in contrast to the secondery images which are more associated with the rough experiance of a beating. ... The title in itself is misleading, reading "My Papas waltz" one will expect to find a poem about a father, good and loving, dancing this gentle dance, not, in ones eye not the poet, a beating father, a monster. ... He describes the beatings as a waltz beacause he sees it as such.