Tuesday, February 2, 2010

My Papa's waltz

Was Theodore Roethke abused as a child? This does not seem to be a happy waltz. The father appears to be drunk and the mother does not seem happy about the situation. They are knocked pots and pans down and the father is "beating time" on his head. To me this appears to be be a poem by an abused child who is trying to connect his pain to something happy, like a dance.

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