Select one poem from this week’s assigned readings, and identify at least three elements in the poem that you found interesting or engaging (e.g., form, language, content, and/or other literary elements).

Then, assess how these elements affected your response to the poem, in its entirety.

(e.g., Did these elements affect your opinions on (or reaction to) the content of the poem? Did they cause you to focus on one aspect of the poem over others?)

Assignment Requirements
Length: Your paper should be two to four double-spaced pages in length (excluding title and reference page)
Sources: Support your reflections with textual details and analysis from at least two scholarly sources.

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My papa Waltz is a really intriguing poem especially upon critical analysis of its content. The poet creatively integrated different perspectives from which the reader could relate to the poem. Upon reading the poem at first I took the perspective of a young boy who was having nostalgic feeling of his childhood over the moments he was bonding with his father. The child remembers his benevolent father coming home covered in dirt from work with his breathed drenched with a strong smell of whisky. Despite this upon getting home the father would immediately pick his son and they would waltz in the kitchen and their uncontrolled father-son …

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