The Somber Dance Theodore Roethke, poet and author, has contributed many well-known pieces to American literature. Roethke wrote close to 200 notebooks worth of poems. Only three percent of the poems in his notebooks were actually published. Most pieces, well-known to the public, are collections of poems such as The Waking, which he won a Pulitzer prize for in the mid 1950’s. The Lost Son and Open House are two other collections pieces of Roethke. A …showed first 75 words of 1070 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1070 total…because of so many memories stuck in his mind from his odd relationship with his father. I was able to understand and get into this poem completely due to the imagery used. Works Cited Seagar, Allan. The glass house; the life of Theodore Roethke. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. Stein, Arnold Sidney. Theodore Roethke; essays on the poetry. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1965. The Academy of American Poets. Ed. Melissa Ozawa. 1997-2000. 17 October 2000 *http://www.poets.org*.