Theodore Roethke College Essays Samples For Students

Compare and Contrast ‘My Papa’s Waltz’ and

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Compare and Contrast Poetry

“Those Winter Sundays” is written by Robert Hayden (Hayden, 2014). And “My Papa’s Waltz” is written by Theodore Roethke in 1961 (Roethke, 1979). Both poems are famousAmerican poems and in both poems the poets describe the relationship between father and son. The speakers in both poems recall their childhood experiences with their fathers. In “Those Winter Days” the speaker recalls how his father did all labor for him when he was a kid. ...

There is a connection between the poetic styles of Theodore Roethke and Elizabeth Bishop. The two are influential poets notable for their styles of poetic presentations. Bishop professed a strong misogyny for the established feminist movement of her time. The connection that existed between her and Roethke revolved around the confessional style of poetry. this philosophy in poetry involved using a style of writing that avoided revealing any personal aspect of her life. While Roethke made many confessions, Bishop avoided this confession. In one of her works “In the Village,” she uses a third person observer, which is similar to that of Roethke.
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Like every other human relationship, the love between parents and children is not simply black and white, but rather it conveys different shades of grey which make it confusing and difficult to grasp, but simultaneously, one of the most potent human relationships in existence. In their poems, Theodore Roethke, Weldon Kees and Natasha Trethewey show the side of parental love that might appear to be lacking in love at first sight, because the poet does not merely state his love for his child, or his parent, bluntly. On the contrary, the situations that these poets convey are ones that ...