Discuss the use of form (rhyme, meter, stanza length and structure, punctuation, and any other formal element you find to be relevant to your analysis) as it relates to content in Theodore Roethke′s ″My Papa′s Waltz,″ how it reflects, embodies, complexifies, and resists the progress of the narrative. Questions for thought: What kind of dance is a waltz? (I myself would probably begin by defining “waltz” for the reader, using The Oxford English Dictionary, to be found in the Galileo databases, to do so.) Where does the rhythm break in the poem, and why does it do so? Remember that time is a part of point(s) of view, and that the poem occupies two of them.
