In the play "A Child Shall Lead" we learned that past events can help us grow and change our behavior in the future.
The suitcases in this play were symbols that were meant to mean something deeper. The suitcases represented the lives of many people who lived in Terezin during the Holocaust.
Poems often contain images and symbols that help us to think deeply about our lives.
Here are a couple poems about a child's memory of their father.
The Secret Heart by, Robert Coffin
My Papa's Waltz by, Theodore Roethke
What images or pictures come to your mind as your reading?
Are there symbols in the poem that are supposed to represent something deeper?
What are some images of your family, or friends?
What symbols could you use to show your feelings about them?
The Secret Heart as I read it, I sort of have a vision of God. Not of Jesus, but of some barely visible being, holographic even, that held a heart in his hands, and gazing at his child with fatherly love. I loved "The Secret Heart," by Robert Coffin. It's as if no other love can replace the one that a father has for his own son.
ReplyDeleteBoth "The Secret Heart" and "My Papa's Waltz" was basically about fathers, but the secret heart spoke to me with rich language.
for "The Secret Heart" I felt that as i was reading through, i could see my father doing the same thing as if he was not human, somone from the heavens just watching over. Caring for a heart that is very special almost too special just cherishing this beautiful thing.
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ReplyDeleteThe images that i get in my mind when i read the poem of "My Papa's Waltz" was of a father and son who love eachother deeply but the father has and addiction to alcohol. I picture a drunken father whos to drunk to see and a small boy maybe the age of 6 holding onto to his dads legs while the father is acting like a drunken fool with his whisky in one hand and his son in the other. I picture a small boy loving his dad and hoping that maybe someday he will put the whisky down and show him the attention he deserves instead of vise versa. When i read the title i pictured a man... who needs alcohol but deep down loves his family as much as they love him. This might have a deeper meaning to it! Like the son might want a father who loves him and cares for him more than the alcohol! This poem paints a perfect picture of a troubled man with a caring son!!! :)
ReplyDeleteThe book Im reading is "Malice", is about the world that live inside the comic book ,inside Malice is have a lot of deadly trap & houses but mostly are the chitter. And about the Malice there are a white ticket, it show a symbol of something because you need that white ticket to escape from Malice but first you need to escape from one of the deadly house to get the ticket, even the house it deadly but there is a way out!!!!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed hearing the different interpretations of the poems. Dzenita's comment about Papa's Waltz shows her thinking about how the father may love his family very much but live a hard troubled life. What are some other symbols in the poem that may show the father loves his son? Also, what are some symbols that the father may be experiencing hardships in his life?
ReplyDeleteThe other poem the Secret Heart also shows about the father's love for his son. I agree with Brenda's response that the symbol of a match light is a way of showing the father's love. What are some more examples of the rich language that we notice in these poems?
i read the poem my papa's waltz and well very strong images came to mind i thought that the kids father was a alcoholic and that he was getting tired and bored of his father attitude and jut wanted to escape from a boring dreadfull life but couldn't because he loved his father to much to let go. i dont see none of my amily or friends in this but i do remember i saw a poor teenager drinking her life out till she droped to the ground crying and drunk the ambulance came but it was to late the waltz i think shows something that is boring and dreadfull because i dont think a kid would want to dance a waltz at all.
ReplyDeleteWell here are the examples of the rich language I was talking about earlier...
ReplyDelete"Half in dreams, he was his sire
With his great hands full of fire."
"He wore, it seemed to his small son,
A bare heart on his hidden one."
I mean personally, this makes the reader think. I assume it is a metaphor/'ironic' remark (???) and a non-visible personification.
I love thwe palce that i just watch the play and I really like because they show many painful is like to beon the camp. Also there a lot of suitcase which like a symble for like people that die or get to another camp so they leave their suitcase at the old camp!!!!!!So I is what I think. =]
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