After reading My Papa’s Waltz answer the following question:
1. What do you think this poem is about? Use text from the poem to support your answer.
1. What do you think this poem is about? Use text from the poem to support your answer.
My Papa’s Waltz
BY THEODORE ROETHKEThe whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.
We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother’s countenance
Could not unfrown itself.
The hand that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle.
You beat time on my head
With a palm caked hard by dirt,
Then waltzed me off to bed
Still clinging to your shirt.
