os;s drinking problem plays an important role of seeing the relationship between the two persons. However, the speaker also states, "But I hung on like death:/Such waltzing was not easy." Affectionately and passionately, the speaker clings to his father although his father's breath is not very unpleasant. At the first impression, the father seems to be an abusive person due to the speaker's descriptions. Consequently, the language, especially in diction and tone, contradicts the father's actions in this poem. The speaker describes the experience of waltzing with his father is not "easy" in which it demonstrates an unsettling feeling of battling with
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