Theodore Rothke's life was anything but ordinary. Not only alcoholism but also mental breakdowns through out the middle and later part of his life troubled Theodore Rothke. Rothke's beginning po

All references that might be taken negatively can be explained in a more positive light. One verse that may be interpreted as a negative experience would be "Every step you missed my eight ear scrapped a buckle"(Rothke 357). People interpret this to mean when he was beat with the belt ever time he missed he was scraped with the buckle of his dad's belt. This is not what happened at tall, when your little boy dancing on you dad's feet your head reaches you dad's waist. This is how whenever his dad would stumble, his ear scraped on his dad's belt buckle.

ems were written about the different worlds in nature. His earlier poems were not Rothke's most popular writings. Rothke was amazed while at the same time scared about many things, one of these fears wer

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Approximate Word count = 516
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)