The speaker is not the boy, but the boy grown to manhood and remembering. How does he now view his father? How does the title help
1)The speaker is not the boy, but the boy grown to manhood and remembering. How does he now view his father? How does the title help you to answer this question? What may have brought this memory into the speaker’s mind? 2)You know the speaker’s childhood background. What kind of man do you think he has grown to be? 3) Describe the dance and its various effects on the boy. 4) About how old is the boy in the poem? What clues in the story help you to determine his age? 5) What three questions would you ask of the author? 6) Listen to the following music. Make believe you are choreographing the poem “My Papa’s Watlz.” Which one of the following would you use as background music? Explain why. my Papa’s waltz BY THEODORE ROETHKE
(Links to an external site.) The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. We romped until the pans Slid from the kitchen shelf; My mother’s countenance Could not unfrown itself. The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckle; At every step you missed My right ear scraped a buckle. You beat time on my head With a palm caked hard by dirt, Then waltzed me off to bed Still clinging to your shirt.
Theodore Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz” from Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke. Copyright 1942 by Heast Magazines, Inc. Used by permission of Doubleday, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke (1961)
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