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I have to admit that while reading Theodore Roethke's 'My Papa's Waltz' the first thought that came to mind was the abuse that his daughter must have gone through, due to her father's drunken waltz....
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Reading an entire book of poetry was surprisingly not that much different than reading a novel. What I liked about the poems is that they didn't spell out exactly what was going on in the story (for...
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In Lagston Hughes' poems, I noticed an underlying theme of of a search for identity. Especially in his poems: 'Ballad of the Fortune Teller' and 'Cross', he truly expresses his confusion in his...
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It was really great to finally hear Rita Dove read her own poems, and present them as she hears them in her head. Hearing about her life also influenced how I interpreted her poetry as a whole. This...
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I have to admit that while reading Theodore Roethke’s ‘My Papa’s Waltz’ the first thought that came to mind was the abuse that his daughter must have gone through, due to her father’s drunken waltz....
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Reading an entire book of poetry was surprisingly not that much different than reading a novel. What I liked about the poems is that they didn’t spell out exactly what was going on in the story (for...
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In Lagston Hughes’ poems, I noticed an underlying theme of of a search for identity. Especially in his poems: ‘Ballad of the Fortune Teller’ and ‘Cross’, he truly expresses his confusion in his...
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It was really great to finally hear Rita Dove read her own poems, and present them as she hears them in her head. Hearing about her life also influenced how I interpreted her poetry as a whole. This...
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