Theodore Roethke poet from United States was born in 1908, had 55 years and died in 1963. Poems were written in Modern age mainly in English language. Dominant movement is political.
Top ten poems Theodore Roethke
My Papa's Waltz
... With a palm caked hard by dirt, ...
Root Cellar
... Bulbs broke out of boxes hunting for chinks in the dark, ...
The Waking
... And is near. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow ...
Elegy For Jane
... (My student, thrown by a horse)I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils ...
I Knew A Woman
... When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them ...
The Survivor
... The way of killing men and beasts is the same ...
In A Dark Time
... Which I is I? A fallen man, I climb out of my fear ...
Cuttings
... I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing, ...
Night Journey
... Wheels shake the roadbed stone, ...
The Storm
... Flicking the foam from the whitecaps straight upward into the darkness ...
