The simple word father can conjure up many images and emotions. A father can be a warm and joyful memory, or a dark and dismal one. Two poets confront these memories in Judith Ortiz Cofers poem "My father in the Navy: A Childhood Memory" and in the poem by Theodore Roethke "My Papa's Waltz". The two poets write about their fathers, and their childhood experiences with them. The two poems both focus on the subject of a father, but have significant differences with how and what each conveys to the reader. Judith Cofers poem relays a message or e ....