The purpose of this essay is to enter the realm of academic conversation. Your claim and reasons will function as the thesis of your paper. If you identify a particular theoretical approach that supports your claim, you may want to review that material and include it in your paper. Your evidence will then be the selections of the text, as well as the scholarship of others, that you use to support your argument. Your draft should be from 1500-2000 words. Thesis statement and draft plan must be pre-approved by the instructor, but students are allowed creative flexibility with regard to approach and content on the assigned topic.
First paragraph is included here, followed by a link for the post-grademark version of the full essay.
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The Nature of Poetic Provocation in Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz”
On first read of any literary work, the reader will take away from it an interpretation which resonates most strongly with their life experience. Upon further readings and reflection, however, their understanding of that literary work can change. Several points play into a reader’s final interpretation of a given piece, such as the author’s intent while writing the piece, the commonality of definitions for words chosen by the author the revisions that authors habitually make along the way, and even the personal experiences of the readers, themselves. In “My Papa’s Waltz”, Theodore Roethke uses careful phrasing to provoke a diverse range of interpretations by readers of his work, relying more on his skill with this medium rather than on childhood memories to craft an emotionally evocative piece.
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