Week 2

The theme of this week is (a) the experience of reading a text and (b) the
experience of seeing an image.

There are two assignments for this week: Assignment A and Assignment B.

(1)Assignment A: Please read the assignment which follows immediately after
this poem by Theodore Roethke (1908-1963).

My Papa's Waltz

The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.

We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother's countenance
Could not unfrown itself.

The hand that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle.

You beat time on my head
With a palm caked hard by dirt,
Then waltzed me off to bed
Still clinging to your shirt.