Roethke and Salinas Blog Post

 

In “My Papa’s Waltz” of Theodore Roethke is a story of a child who have a father that drunk a lot of whiskey but he hung on like death. He received abuse from his father. And also when he talked about his mother, it seems like he has being abused too and she is sad. I think this poem is a little love hate because at the end of the poem the son said “ Still clinging to your shirt”, so he even the abuse he is suffering from his father, he still love him and is obsessed with him. I can’t imagine how hard can be to have a drunken father and you also are suffering abuse from him and you still love him.


On the other hand, My Father is a Simple Man from Luis Omar Salinas this poem talks about the good relationship that a son and a father have, the son look up his father and he’d gladly give his life for him. The son only talk good things about his father like “here was a man who was a worker and provider who learned the simple facts in life and lived by them, who held no pretense”. The father compared human life with oranges because they have seed and they are perpetual. I think that when he said that oranges are perpetual it means that they never die but also human never die because he goes to heaven and his spirit is still alive.


To sum up, here we’ve read two different paternal love. On the first poem, the son love his father even he is afraid of him and he suffer abuse from him, it’s like a hate love story. And on the second poem, the son look up his father, he is proud of the father he has. He only speak good things about his father. I think on the first poem love is hard, on the first poem is difficult to understand how a child can still love his father after everything he has done, but he is his father, he always will love his father. And on the second poem love is easy, the son doesn’t suffer abuse and everything is much easier.

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