#15

I am going to attempt to do a critical analysis of the one of the villanelle from our packet. I don't really like villanelle because you have to have two rhymes within the poem. I am not a fan a rhyming because I'm just not very good with them. I chose to do The Waking by Theodore Roethke. I found this poem interesting and easy to understand. As much as I don't like villanelle I couldn't really many errors in the poem it was written very precise. However, I did find some things I did not like about the poem. I noticed that in the last stanza the poem, the poet almost seems to rushed to conclude the poem. He kind of left the audience wanting more of an explanation of exactly what was the outcome the poem. An example of this probably would be "I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow" I think he plays with his use of words as he wrote that sentence. Because he could have been thinking about his own death or the death of someone else close to him. This poem kind of leaves his audience out in the open about certain things.