The motif of the journey is more crucial to the poetry of Theodore Roethke than to that of any other major American poet since Whitman. Perhaps it is more important to Roethke than it is to Whitman. C...
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By the time Theodore Roethke arrived at the University of Washington in the fall of 1947, he was nearing forty and had more than a dozen years of college-teaching experience. His first book of poems, ...
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American poet and teacher Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) is considered a major poet of his generation. He demonstrated a wide range of styles and growing awareness of how to transform his love of nature...
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Biography EssayThe motif of the journey is more crucial to the poetry of Theodore Roethke than to that of any other major American poet since Whitman. Perhaps it is more important to Roethke. Certainl...
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In the poem "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke, the speaker is reflecting on a childhood experience involving his father. Through diction and details, the speaker conveys his complex attitudes towa...
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Theodore Roethke's My Papa's Waltz is an extended metaphor comparing a father and son's relationship to that of a waltz. The waltz is an intimate dance between two partners, where one leads another. T...
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Theodore (Huebner) Roethke
Theodore Roethke
