The Child Father Relationships Of Daddy And My Papa s Waltz

Ben Josse Dr. Linda Gill ENGL 102 9 August 2015 The Child-Father Relationships of â€Å"Daddy† and â€Å"My Papa’s Waltz† One of the most difficult, yet rewarding roles is that of a parent. The relationship between and parent and child is so complex and important that a parents relationship with her/his child can affect the relationship that the child has with his/her friends and lovers. A child will watch their parents and use them as role models and in turn project what the child has learned into all of the relationship that he child will have. The way a parent interacts with his/her child has a huge impact on the child’s social and emotional development. Such cases of parent and child relationships are presented in Theodore Roethke’s â€Å"My Papa’s Waltz† and Sylvia Plath’s â€Å"Daddy†. While Roethke and Plath both write about a dynamic between a child-father relationship that seems unhealthy and abusive, Plath writes about a complex and tense child-father relatio nship in which the child hates her father, whereas Roethke writes about a complex and more relaxed child-father relationship in which the son loves his father. Through the use of tone, rhyme, meter, and imagery, both poems illustrate different child-father relationships in which each child has a different set of feelings toward their father. The Tone of â€Å"Daddy† and â€Å"My Papa’s Waltz† is what differentiates the two child-father relationships in the poems from one another with â€Å"Daddy† having a tone of hate and fearShow MoreRelatedFamily Symbolism In Literature1134 Words   |  5 PagesSpecifically, this essay will discuss symbols in My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke, Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin, and Daddy by Sylvia Plath. The first work studied in the family unit that contains obvious use of symbolism is My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke. In a poem with a name of a popular dancing style literally in the title, one would expect to see some dancing. However, a better word for what s going on shows up in line five. This father and son pair is not waltzing, but romping. It’sRead MoreChildhood Innocence Is Veiled By Joy And Ignorance1722 Words   |  7 Pagesworry as an adult. Children’s views on the â€Å"real world† are easily manipulated but the outside sources that are in their everyday lives. These sources come from the environment around them, such as problems that adults suffer relating to stress, relationship struggles, job security, and happiness of their family. The unknown problem that children seem to have masked over them is the importance of reality and how simplistic matters such as having electricity, food on the table, and a place to live is