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Theodore Huebner Roethke (/ ˈ r ɛ t k i / RET-kee; [1] May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963) was an American poet. He is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation, having won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book The Waking, and the annual National Book Award for Poetry on two occasions: in 1959 for Words for the Wind, [2] and posthumously in ...
The poem belongs among Roethke's series of "Greenhouse Poems" the first section of The Lost Son, a sequence hailed as "one of the permanent achievements of modern poetry" [1] and marked as the point of Roethke's metamorphosis from a minor poet into one of "the first importance", [2] into the poet James Dickey would regard among the greatest of ...
"The Waking" is a poem written by Theodore Roethke in 1953 in the form of a villanelle. It comments on the unknowable [1] with a contemplative tone. It also has been interpreted as comparing life to waking and death to sleeping. [2]
My Papa's Waltz" is a poem written by Theodore Roethke. [1] The poem was first published during 1942 in Hearst Magazine and later in other collections, including the 1948 anthology The Lost Son and Other Poems. [2] The poem takes place sometime during the poet's childhood and features a boy who loves his father, but is afraid of him.
The Far Field is a 1964 poetry collection by Theodore Roethke, and the poem for which it was named. It was Roethke's final collection, published after his death in 1963. It was Roethke's final collection, published after his death in 1963.
— June Jordan, “Poem for My Love” ... Theodore Roethke “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.”— 1 Peter 4:8
Homage To Mistress Bradstreet < John Berryman poem; Elegy for Jane-> Theodore Roethke poem; Notes Towards a Supreme Fiction < Wallace Stevens poem; as Kingfishers Catch Fire Dragonflies Draw Flame-> Poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins; the Fallacies of Hope-> Poem by J. M. W. Turner; Dream Deferred By Langston Hughes; Ode to a Skylark-> Poem by Percy ...
The Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize is an American poetry prize given once every three years since being established in 1967. The Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize has been offered in Saginaw, Michigan, since 1965. It is now administered by Saginaw Valley State University.