A Study Guide for Theodore Roethke's "The Waking"
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The Waking
Theodore Roethke
1953
Introduction
The Waking
is by American poet Theodore Roethke (pronounced RET-kee). The poem was first published in 1953 in the volume of the same title, The Waking: Poems 1933-1953. It is available in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke (1974) and Theodore Roethke: Selected Poems (2005).
Roethke is one of the most notable of American poets who were writing from the 1940s to the 1960s. He belongs in the romantic and transcendentalist tradition of literature, and The Waking
might be understood as a poem of spiritual awakening in which the speaker describes his insights into life and how to live well. He describes an approach to understanding based on feeling and intuition, honoring the sacred element in life and savoring each moment of it, accepting the reality of things without argument or protest. The poem is written in the form of a villanelle, a complex poetic form that relies on only two rhymes and utilizes two lines as refrains.
The Waking
is notable not only as one of the best of modern villanelles but also because it gives an introduction to Roethke's main themes, which involve the quest to understand the nature of the self and its connection to the cosmos as a whole.
Author Biography
Theodore Roethke was born on May 25, 1908, in Saginaw, Michigan, the son of Otto and Helen Roethke. His father and uncle owned a large greenhouse, and Roethke grew up with a deep knowledge of various plants and flowers that would later inform his poetry. His father died of cancer in 1923, when Roethke was fourteen; his uncle committed suicide in the same