My Papa's Waltz" In Theodor Roethke's "My Papa's 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. The feeling one get from reading this poem is that the narrator, at least at the time in which the poem is written, does not look at this experience as something bad. He tries to beutify the …showed first 75 words of 1057 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1057 total…on the contrary, he shows us that the love to his father is not, and never was lost. And twice during the poem - he talks about " But I hung on " in the first stanza, and " Still clinging to your shirt." in the fourth stanza, which gives the feeling that he loved and stayed with his father during his childhood, and that he does that even now when his childhood is no longer with him.