Recently, we read the poem My papa waltz. We has a deep discussion about this in class. Most of my class and i thought this this poem was talking about a drunk father who was abusing his child.
I personally thought that the father was drunk but many people disagreed. I thought that he was drink because in the text it said " the whiskey on your breathe could make a small boy dizzy" Now i know when you drink whiskey or beer you don't necessarily have to be drunk, but it said it can make the boy dizzy, in my mind i think that that means he drank a lot and he must be at least tipsy.
Another reason i thought that the father was drunk was because it also said at every step you missed my right ear scraped a buckle. Now the way this text was put, i thought that it meant the father could keep his balance, it said with every step he missed his son's right ear scraped a buckle which means he was hurting his kid, weather it was on purpose to because he was drunk.
People in my class thought this poem was just a story of a father and son playing. They said that just because he drank doesn't mean that he is drunk, he could be trying to have fun with his kid. It could be a father just trying to get along with his child. i think that some people got the wrong idea of the poem because i don't get why the author would even start off the poem saying that the whiskey in your breathe can make a small boy dizzy. If it had no importance then why would the author even mention it.
In conclusion, i think that this poem talks about a drunk father who is purposely, or accidently abusing his child, and does not know it.
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