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True Feelings
True Feelings
Ryan Dale
ENG125: Introduction to Literature
Allorah Wyman
02/15/2010
True Feelings
I have chosen three great poems to write about. The first poem is Theodore Roethke – "My Papa's Waltz," the second poem is Rainer Maria Pilke – "The Cadet Picture of my Father," and my final poem choice is Paul Lawrence Dunbar – "We wear the mask,". I will be writing about how these poems impact my life and how this choices made me feel.
True Feelings
This part of the poem gave up a better picture of the way that they were dancing. "The hand that held my wrist, Was battered on one knuckle, At every step you missed, My right ear scraped a buckle"3. The first line say that the son must have been small or short when this took place. To hold the sons wrist and not his waist. The battered knuckle on the father would mean he was a hard working man or could always be hurting himself either at work or at home. The next line suggest that the father was not dancing very well and was dancing like a mad man just all over the place. The son hurting his ear at every step mean he must be waist level with his father. It also mean that he was right up against his father trying to dance with him.
The final part of this poem "You beat time on my head, With a palm caked hard by dirt, Then waltzed me off to bed, Still clinging to your shirt"4.It feels like the father was playing and having fun by keeping time on his sons head. The fathers hand may support my thoughts on the father was a hard working man with a drinking problem. Another meaning of this line is that the
True Feelings
My second choice for me was Rainer Maria Pilke – "The Cadet Picture of my Father,". This poem is more personal to me. My father and I are both in the military, so this poem had a deeper meaning for me. "There's a absence in the eyes. The brow's in touch with something far. Now distant boyishness and seduction shadow his enormous lips, the slender aristocratic...
True Feelings
Ryan Dale
ENG125: Introduction to Literature
Allorah Wyman
02/15/2010
True Feelings
I have chosen three great poems to write about. The first poem is Theodore Roethke – "My Papa's Waltz," the second poem is Rainer Maria Pilke – "The Cadet Picture of my Father," and my final poem choice is Paul Lawrence Dunbar – "We wear the mask,". I will be writing about how these poems impact my life and how this choices made me feel.
True Feelings
This part of the poem gave up a better picture of the way that they were dancing. "The hand that held my wrist, Was battered on one knuckle, At every step you missed, My right ear scraped a buckle"3. The first line say that the son must have been small or short when this took place. To hold the sons wrist and not his waist. The battered knuckle on the father would mean he was a hard working man or could always be hurting himself either at work or at home. The next line suggest that the father was not dancing very well and was dancing like a mad man just all over the place. The son hurting his ear at every step mean he must be waist level with his father. It also mean that he was right up against his father trying to dance with him.
The final part of this poem "You beat time on my head, With a palm caked hard by dirt, Then waltzed me off to bed, Still clinging to your shirt"4.It feels like the father was playing and having fun by keeping time on his sons head. The fathers hand may support my thoughts on the father was a hard working man with a drinking problem. Another meaning of this line is that the
True Feelings
My second choice for me was Rainer Maria Pilke – "The Cadet Picture of my Father,". This poem is more personal to me. My father and I are both in the military, so this poem had a deeper meaning for me. "There's a absence in the eyes. The brow's in touch with something far. Now distant boyishness and seduction shadow his enormous lips, the slender aristocratic...