First of a Million

I am new to all of this but I am so excited to get into it! I mad a blog before this one but it would not work correctly for some reason so hopefully this one works and everyone will be able to find it. We are currently working on poetry in English class. I have very mixed emotions about poetry. I love it sometimes but then other times I do not love it so much. I for some reason have a very hard time comprehending what the authors are trying to make out of their poems, what they are trying to say. But once I re-read it a couple of times and break it down stanza by stanza I then realize what it is about and what the author is trying to say. Out of all the poems that we are reading I would have to say my most favorite is "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke. Roethke done an amazing job at writing this poem. When I first read it I thought that it was a sad poem about a drunken father abusing his son. But then I came to realize after I got it explained to me and got it broken down that it is actually about a father that comes home drunk from the bar and has a fun time with his son. It is almost like the son looks forward to his dad coming home drunk. The father and son have their own nightly routine. The mother is not to fawn of it because the father gets the little boy all wound up when she has him settled down for bed. But all in all everyone ends up being happy. Those are my most favorite kind of poems!