Comparing My Papa Waltz And My Father In The Navy: Childhood Memory

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(Hook). Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa Waltz” and Judith Ortiz Cofer’s “My father in the Navy: Childhood Memory” are both related about their fathers and their strained relationship with them. However, there are several differences about these two-unique works including: poetic devices, the meaning of the poems, and the style of the poems.
In addition, both of the authors come from completely different backgrounds. Theodore Roethke was born in Saginaw Michigan in May 25, 1908. Sadly, he had a troubling past with issues of abandonment and loss, and low self-esteem. He spent a large amount of his childhood at his father’s greenhouse. Several of his works were inspired due to him spending a large amount of his time in the greenhouse. Eventually,

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