My papas waltz in a literal sense means that the narrator's father does the waltz dance. The poem is literally describing the dancing of her father in the kkitchen. The first stanza is stating that rthe father has been drinking whisckey and it is hard to dance with a drunk man. The second stanza is stating that they danced in the kitchen so hard the pans fell and the mother had a frown on her face because of them doing so.The next stanza is saying that the father had dirty hands and a hurt knuckle and the the narrators head would scrape the buckle of her father's belt while the danced. The final stanza states that the father tapped on the narrator's head with a dirty hand and they danced off to bed.
The whiskey on his breath means that he has been and in the next line it states it could make a small boy dizzy shows that the father has been drinking heavily. Also, the caked dirt shoes that the father must have been at work for it to cake up onto his hands. In every stanza the rhyme scheme was the same, the first and third line rhymed and the second and fourth line oof each stanza rhymed. from the clues within the text you could tell she was danceing with her father and was talking to him in the story. The narrator speaks in a happy tone like she is happy that she is dancing with her drunk father. The Author on the other hand is describing more of a drunken father who is dancing with his daughter and tearing things up and bothering everyone else. Each stanza is a sentence with enjambments within it. And, every two lines is and enjambment. This adds shifts and creates more than one point per stanza. Now the title means that her father's dance is what she yern's for because this is when he spends time with her.. The theme for the poem is that spending time with your child makes them happy even if you are drinking. I did this in the TP-CASTT concept.
It's good that you analyzed each paragraph, and told the meaning. You should maybe talk about the different ways we analyzed poems in class, and different methods of poetry like similes. It was a good analysis though!
ReplyDeleteCody, what makes you think the speaker is female? Do we get any clues to whether the speaker is male or female? Good observation that there is a difference between the tone of the poem in the rhythm, which seems to go with the child's perspective, and the tone that comes through the images, which is a more adult, critical perspective. And nice work with the enjambment - I like that you go beyond noticing the enjambment to think about what it is doing in the poem. Theme to me goes a bit beyond what you state here and is a little more ambivalent. I can see the TP-CASTT process here in your analysis.
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