21. IHAS Poet theodore roethke ( 19081963) Owing much to the mystics of the Anglo-Celtic tradition such as Blake, Yeats, and Auden, poet theodore roethke, exerted, in turn, a significant influence on artists of http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/poet/roethke.html

THEODORE ROETHKE O wing much to the mystics of the Anglo-Celtic tradition such as Blake, Yeats, and Auden, poet Theodore Roethke, exerted, in turn, a significant influence on artists of the 1940's and 1950's generations. Not only did a poet like Sylvia Plath find inspiration in Roethke's work, but a number of American composers, among them Samuel Barber and Ned Rorem , found the lyricism of his verse excellent material for song settings. Born on May 25, 1908 in Michigan and educated there, he went on to Harvard before pursuing an academic career at various American universities. His first volume of verse, OPEN HOUSE (1941), initiated his hallmark use of plant imagery as a symbol for human flowering and decay. He followed this with autobiographical verse, THE LOST SON (1948) and PRAISE TO THE END! (1951), which showed him embracing the visionary style of Yeats. THE WAKING won the poet the Pulitzer Prize in 1953, while the Bollingen Prize-winning WORDS FOR THE WIND is probably his best known work. After his death in 1963 the remainder of his verse, letters, and essays were published posthumously and a COLLECTED EDITION of the poems appeared in 1975. Listen to "Snake" in the Songbook SNAKE by Theodore Roethke (set by Ned Rorem I saw a young snake glide Out of the mottled shade And hang, limp on a stone:

22. Theodore Roethke - The Academy Of American Poets An Academy of American Poets poetry exhibit, including a short biography, selected poems (with a single audio recording), and links to further resources at the Academy's website and elsewhere on the internet. http://www.poets.org/LIT/poet/troetfst.htm

poetry awards poetry month poetry exhibits poetry map ... about the academy Search Larger Type Find a Poet Find a Poem Listening Booth ... Add to a Notebook Theodore Roethke Theodore Roethke was born in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1908. As a child, he spent much time in the greenhouse owned by his father and uncle. His impressions of the natural world contained there would later profoundly influence the subjects and imagery of his verse. Roethke attended the University of Michigan and took a few classes at Harvard, but was unhappy in school. His first book, Open House (1941), took ten years to write and was critically acclaimed upon its publication. He went on to publish sparingly but his reputation grew with each new collection, including The Waking which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1954. He admired the writing of such poets as Emerson Thoreau Whitman Blake , and Wordsworth , as well as Yeats and Dylan Thomas . Stylistically his work ranged from witty poems in strict meter and regular stanzas to free verse poems full of mystical and surrealistic imagery. At all times, however, the natural world in all its mystery, beauty, fierceness, and sensuality, is close by, and the poems are possessed of an intense lyricism. Roethke had close literary friendships with fellow poets W. H. Auden

23. Theodore Roethke - The Academy Of American Poets theodore roethke My Papa s Waltz. From The Collected Poems of theodore roethke by theodore roethke, published by Doubleday Company, Inc. http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?prmID=1067

24. Selected Poems Of Theodore Roethke Epidermal Macabre. The Geranium. Journey into the Interior. In a Dark Time. The Waking. I Knew a Woman. The Reckoning. Night Journey. My Papa's Waltz. Elegy for Jane. The Far Field http://www.gawow.com/roethke/poems

Epidermal Macabre The Geranium Journey into the Interior In a Dark Time Epidermal Macabre The Geranium Journey into the Interior In a Dark Time ... The Far Field

25. Roethke, Theodore. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 2001. roethke, theodore. (r t´k ) (KEY) , 1908–63, American poet, b. Saginaw, Mich., educated at the Univ. of Michigan and Harvard. http://www.bartleby.com/65/ro/Roethke.html

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26. Roethke, Theodore My Papa's Waltz Literature Annotations. roethke, theodore. My Papa's Waltz http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/roethke41-des

About the Database Editorial Board Annotators What's New ... MedHum Home 53rd Edition-April 2004 Art Annotations Artists Meet the Artist Viewing Room ... Art in Literature Literature Annotations Authors Meet the Author Listening Room ... Reading Room Performing Arts Film/Video Annotations Screening Room Theater Editors' Choices Choices Editor's Biosketch Indexes Book Order Form Search Options Word/Phrase (All) Word/Phrase (Lit) Keyword Annotator ... Special Author Asterisks indicate multimedia Comments/Inquiries Literature Annotations Roethke, Theodore My Papa's Waltz On-Line Text and Audio Genre Poem Keywords Alcoholism Child Abuse Children Family Relationships ... Parenthood Summary A child recalls waltzing with his drunken father. His papa's breath stank of whiskey, his moves were clumsy and borderline abusive, and the son's love and fear caused him to cling to his father "like death." Source The Lost Son and Other Poems Publisher Doubleday (New York) Edition Alternate Source The Treasury of American Poetry Alternate Editors Nancy Sullivan Alternate Publisher Dorset (New York) Alternate Edition Annotated by Chen, Irene

27. 46778. Roethke, Theodore. The Columbia World Of Quotations. 1996 ATTRIBUTION theodore roethke (1908–1963), US poet. Big Wind (l. 32–33). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. http://www.bartleby.com/66/78/46778.html

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28. Roethke, Theodore Comments/Inquiries ©New York University 19932004. roethke, theodore. On-Line Author Site. Sex, Male. National Origin, United States of America. Era, Mid 20th Century. http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/roethke81-au-.

About the Database Editorial Board Annotators What's New ... MedHum Home 53rd Edition-April 2004 Art Annotations Artists Meet the Artist Viewing Room ... Art in Literature Literature Annotations Authors Meet the Author Listening Room ... Reading Room Performing Arts Film/Video Annotations Screening Room Theater Editors' Choices Choices Editor's Biosketch Indexes Book Order Form Search Options Word/Phrase (All) Word/Phrase (Lit) Keyword Annotator ... Special Author Asterisks indicate multimedia Comments/Inquiries Roethke, Theodore On-Line Author Site Sex Male National Origin United States of America Era Mid 20th Century Born Died Awards National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize Annotated Works Epidermal Macabre In a Dark Time Meditation in Hydrotherapy My Papa's Waltz ... The Waking

29. Theodore Roethke - The Academy Of American Poets theodore roethke The Waking (1953). The Academy of American Poets presents biographies, photographs, selected poems, and links as part of its online poetry exhibits. Some pages also include From http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?prmID=1069

30. Roethke, Theodore Meditation In Hydrotherapy Literature Annotations. roethke, theodore Meditation in Hydrotherapy. Genre, Poem. Source, The Collected Poems of theodore roethke. Publisher, Doubleday (New York). http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/roethke368-de

About the Database Editorial Board Annotators What's New ... MedHum Home 53rd Edition-April 2004 Art Annotations Artists Meet the Artist Viewing Room ... Art in Literature Literature Annotations Authors Meet the Author Listening Room ... Reading Room Performing Arts Film/Video Annotations Screening Room Theater Editors' Choices Choices Editor's Biosketch Indexes Book Order Form Search Options Word/Phrase (All) Word/Phrase (Lit) Keyword Annotator ... Special Author Asterisks indicate multimedia Comments/Inquiries Literature Annotations Roethke, Theodore Meditation in Hydrotherapy Genre Poem Keywords Depression Disease and Health Mental Illness Patient Experience ... Suicide Summary This short poem appears chronologically just before another poem entitled "Lines Upon Leaving a Sanitarium." The narrator describes a treatment he is undergoing for suicidal depressionsoaking in a warm bath for hours each day. Rhyming couplets chillingly (in contrast to the water temperature) relate how the treatment is supposed to work to "refit" him for life. But the narrator is numb: "I do not laugh; I do not cry; / I'm sweating out the will to die." He notes in ending, the paradox of mental illness: that recovery requires disposing of the past. But how can one dispose of that which is a part of the self? What does it mean to "be myself again"? Is it possible to be yourself if you lose your past? In another poem

31. Theodore Roethke's Life And Career theodore roethke s Life and Career. Walter Kalaidjian. Copyright © 1991 by the Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University. Return to theodore roethke. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/roethke/bio.htm

Theodore Roethke's Life and Career Walter Kalaidjian H e was born Theodore Huebner Roethke in Saginaw, Michigan, the son of Otto Roethke and Helen Huebner, owners of a local greenhouse. As a student at Saginaw's Arthur Hill High School, Roethke demonstrated early promise in a speech on the Junior Red Cross that was subsequently published in twenty-six languages. The poet's adolescent years were jarred, however, by the death of his father from cancer in 1923, a loss that would powerfully shape Roethke's psychic and creative lives. From 1925 to 1929 Roethke distinguished himself at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, graduating magna cum laude. Resisting family pressure to pursue a legal career, he quit law school after one semester and, from 1929 to 1931, took graduate courses at the University of Michigan and later the Harvard Graduate School, where he worked closely with the poet Robert Hillyer. The hard economic times of the Great Depression forced Roethke to leave Harvard and to take up a teaching career at Lafayette College from 1931 to 1935. Here he met Rolfe Humphries, who introduced him to Louise Bogan; during these years Roethke also found a powerful supporter, colleague, and friend in the poet Stanley Kunitz. In the fall of 1935 Roethke assumed his second teaching post at Michigan State College at Lansing but was soon hospitalized for what would prove to be recurring bouts of mental illness. Throughout his subsequent career Roethke used these periodic incidents of depression for creative self-exploration. They allowed him, as he said, to "reach a new level of reality."

32. Roethke, Theodore roethke, theodore, ret ku Pronunciation Key. roethke, theodore , 1908–63, American poet, b. Saginaw, Mich., educated at the Univ. of Michigan and Harvard. http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/id/A0842236.html

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34. Theodore Roethke --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia roethke, theodore Britannica Student Encyclopedia. , roethke, theodore American poet whose verse is characterized by introspection and intense lyricism. http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article?eu=359662&query=theodore prodromus&ct=ebi

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38. Search Results For "Roethke, Theodore" :: American Poems site contains 32 poets and 4489 poems. American Poems Search. Your search for roethke, theodore found 3 poets and 2 poems. Poets. http://www.americanpoems.com/search/Roethke,_Theodore

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