Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke was born in Michigan and spent much of his mature life in the Northwest, teaching at the University of Washington. In the barest externals, his career resembles that of Kenneth Rexroth, who

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by Theodore Roethke (1908–63)

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The stethoscope tells what everyone fears:

You're likely to go on living for years,

With a nurse-maid waddle and a shop-girl simper,

And the style of your prose growing limper and limper.

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