The Saginaw Song

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third line. The words breath and death are dominant words that reveal a somber tone, which runs throughout the piece. In the second line, the words ‘dizzy’ and ‘easy’ are paired as sight rhymes. Although the rhyme scheme is entertaining, the late night waltz between father and son is serious.
The poem is told by a boy who remembers waltzing with his father. The first stanza reveals that the father has been drinking and that his breath ‘could make a small boy dizzy.”
Imagery is used to describe how the boy interacts with his father. He ‘hangs on like death, ’as the pair romp with such a vengence that the pans almost ‘slid from the kitchen shelf.’
The boy describes his mother’s facial expression as frowning. Its easy to determine that she was probably angry with her husband because he had too much to drink, and she also didn’t want her son exposed to this type of behavior. It was late and she wanted her son to be in bed.
The poem reveals that the father’s hands, are scraped and ...

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