Part one of term paper
“My Papa’s Waltz” and “Those Winter Sundays” “My Papa’s Waltz,” by Theodore Roethke, and “Those Winter Sundays,” by Robert Hayden, are two somewhat similar poems about respected fathers. To most people a father is not just the man who fertilizes their mother’s egg, but a man t ...

Part two of term paper
... episode in his childhood. In this, what seems to be regular, occurrence his drunken father comes home for the night reeking of alcohol and begins dancing with him. Roethke describes his father’s hands as being battered on one knuckle and extremely soiled. They “romped until the pans slid from the kitchen shelf” (5-6). This made his mother so upset that she could do nothing but frown. Finally, his father “waltzed” him on to bed. In “Those Winter Sunday ...