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English IV
Ms. Hansen
10/5/16
In Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz", the author conveys the message of children both loving and fearing an abusive parent through the usage of rhyme scheme, symbolism, and consonance. The playful, singsong rhyme scheme in this poem alludes to the childish, naïve speaker. The subject matter is in fact quite serious, but the speaker does not realize the true extent of the abuse of his father. The speaker recalls of his father, "You beat time on my head/With a palm caked hard by dirt,/Then waltzed me off to bed/Still clinging to your shirt." The image of a "hard" palm "[beating] time on [one's] head" surprises adult readers, but in the small boy's naïvety, he dilutes the pain and problems with a nursery rhyme, reminding readers that he is still a child, not yet accustomed to the hardships of the world.
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