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In the poem My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke there are many techniques used to develop a relationship between the speaker, and the father. Three of these techniques being diction, metaphors, and imagery. Diction helps explain our time period and or setting. The metaphors help us relate. Lastly the imagery helps captivate the reader's visual perception.

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In the poem My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke there are many techniques used to develop a relationship between the speaker, and the father. Three of these techniques being diction, metaphors, and imagery. Diction helps explain our time period and or setting. The metaphors help us relate. Lastly the imagery helps captivate the reader's visual perception.

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In the heart of the south, grown men are known for huntin’ and fishin’, but mostly drinkin’. But when drinkin’ gets out of hand, things tend to get rowdy. In Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz”, he describes his relationship with his father using imagery and a chaotic, abusive tone while he dances with him while he’s drunk.

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In the heart of the south, grown men are known for huntin’ and fishin’, but mostly drinkin’. But when drinkin’ gets out of hand, things tend to get rowdy. In Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz”, he describes his relationship with his father using imagery and a chaotic, abusive tone while he dances with him while he’s drunk.

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In Theodore Rhothke’s poem, “My Papa’s Waltz,” Rhoethke uses diction and imagery to develop the abusive relationship between the speaker and the father. Masterfully combining imagery and diction by combining dark words and tone to create a clear image of the father’s abuse, the readers are able to see clearly how the father abuses the speaker.

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In Theodore Roethke's poem, "My Papa's Waltz", a loving relationship between father and son is portrayed with precise phrases and wording, as well as similes and vivid imagery.

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In Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz”, he uses metaphors, imagery, and rhythmic tone to establish a positive relationship between him and his father. Despite the negative connotations that a lot of the diction of the poem contain, very little suggests his relationship was poor. The aforementioned literary devices do however relate a positive relationship where he is taken care of by a hard-working blue-collar worker who waltzed his son to sleep. In fact, Roethke loved his father so much he clung on to him all the way to bed.

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“My Papa’s waltz” by Theodore Roethke is a complete metaphor within itself . The waltz taking place is actually referencing abuse. A dark diction gives one a direct sense that something is not correct with this situation. The whiskey on the father's breathe symbolizes an addiction to alcohol. The explanation of abuse becomes more apparent as the poem evolves. Also it’s shown subtly through metaphors one can infer the mother has no direct control over the situation. Through the entire poem the boy shows time and time again that he can't help but love his father and endure such treatment . “Still clinging to his shirt” …. The last we heard about Papa and his dear son.

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In the Poem "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke, he uses imagery that depicts a playful relationship between father and child. Roethke shows this by consistently displaying a playful dance between father and child.

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In the poem, “My Papa’s Waltz”, by Theodore Roethke, the poet uses a fluent rhyming scheme, metaphorical approach, and imagery to reflect the relationship between the speaker and the father who have a depressed, neglectful father/child relationship.

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Liquor may compromise the lives and routines of many families, but it can likewise maintain relationships in other families.  Instead of being a catalyst for divorce or an abusive relationship, alcohol can become a factor that strengthens the bond between family members.  This theme is evident in Theodore Roethke’s poem “My Papa’s Waltz,” where Roethke employs the reiteration of imagery wording, constant alternating rhythm between stanzas, and the figurative language of similes and metaphors to illustrate the haggard, lumbering relations between the boy and his father in the story.  He incorporates these literary structures to further the strenuous, yet capable and sufficient love the boy exclaims for his father, and the drunken oaf-like love that the father reciprocates to the boy.  They may not be the perfect example of a coalesced ball of appreciation, but both father and son acknowledge each other and go about their lives in unison.

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In the poem "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke the author uses imagery to paint a picture of an hostile and abusive relationship between a father and son. Roethke uses the words death, whiskey, battered, and roped to illustrate the everyday life and fear lived by the author. With the title being waltz, it leads one to believe the meaning is dancing when the real significance is survival.

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In this poem, the author uses imagery, metaphors, and similes to construct a visual image on an abusive relationship between an alcoholic father and his young son. The "romping part indicates that the boy's father was walking very clumsily, possibly knocking into things in the kitchen, causing pans to fall from the kitchen shelves as his son was clinging to him, which the speaker describes as a "waltz". The holding of the son's wrist and his ear being scraped indicates that the father is carelessly moving about throughout the house to the son's bedroom, with his son clinging onto him, possibly hurting him every time he misses a step.

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In "My Papa's Waltz", By Roethke, the author utilizes dark diction or purpose as well as similes and imagery to create an image of a negative and abusive relationship between the speaker and the little boy. The specific choice of the words "death, battered, scraped and beat", are used to show the negative relationship.