"My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke

          "My Papa's Waltz" is about a drunken father, and the daughter not wanting him to leave her. This poem shows a few of the Literary terms we talked about. First, I notices the Imagery in the poem. In he fist line is says " The whiskey on your breath could make a small boy dizzy;" I could imagine the smell of the whiskey when I read this.

          Also, there is a use of a simile. In the third line a=of the second stanza, it says "I hung on like death:" This is saying she was hanging on to her father, and was holding tight, as death would hold on to someone. It also creates and Image in my mind. I can see a hooded figure in my ming when I read this. This line creates a sense of sadness and fear of the girl.

Also I noticed an enjambment in the poem. in the fourth stanza, second line, it says " With a palm caked hard by dirt," This makes the reader focus on that line alone, because it is important to the poem. Also in this poem, I did not notice any assonance or consonance, but I did notice rhyming throughout the poem. This poem uses those elements or poems to see the poem the way the poet sees it.