Theodore+Roethke

__//Theodore Roethke//~__

Jake,Alex,Marc


(1908-1963)

Theodore Huebner Roethke was born in Saginaw, Michigan in 1908. His parents, Otto and Helen Roethke were owners of a local greenhouse. He would spend much of his childhood there and it would have a profound influence on his work later on in his life. As an elementary student he showed interest in speech and writing. All through his childhood he strived to look less smart and stronger than he actually was.
 * Childhood**

During his teenage years, Theodore's father died. He attended Harvard University but, due to the failing economy he was forced to take a job teaching at The University of Lafayette. Theodore got bullied in high school and started drinking.
 * Hard times**

Roethke wrote his first book, __Open House,__ in 1941. The book highly reconized. It took nearly another ten years to be reconized by the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 for the book __The Waking Which__. Before and after that Theodore did not publish often.
 * First book**

After being expelled from Lafayette, Roethke took up other positions of teaching at various other schools including Penn State. He suffered from depression during his teaching carrer. He then went on to marry Beatrice O'Connel. He had many problems due to his depression and took to drink to relieve his stress. His new wife stayed dedicated to him through it all.
 * Life in the real world**

Sadly, Roethke suffered a heart attack in his freind's swimming pool and died that day in the hospital. He was 51 when he died in 1963.
 * Death**


 * Poems by Theodore Roethke**
 * **The Bat**
 * **Big Wind**
 * **Elegy for Jane**
 * **Dolor**
 * **Child ontop of a green house**



=The Bat=

Theodore Roethke
By day the bat is cousin to the mouse. He likes the attic of an aging house.

His fingers make a hat about his head. His pulse beat is so slow we think him dead.

He loops in crazy figures half the night Among the trees that face the corner light.

But when he brushes up against a screen, We are afraid of what our eyes have seen:

For something is amiss or out of place When mice with wings can wear a human face.


 * Photostory for the bat**(paste this as a link when you have your section of the photostory)

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Searle, Mike. //Castles of Munster: Coppinger's Court, Cork//. Photograph. //Geograph//. 15 June 2009. Web. 15 Nov. 2011. [].

Simark, Evelyn. //1415552_7a4fef6f//. 2009. Photograph. //Geograph//. 26 July 2009. Web. 15 Nov. 2011. .

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