"Homage to My Hips" by Lucille Clifton "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning Read Lucille Clifton, "Homage to My Hips," and then listen as Author Lucille Clifton reads "Homage to My Hips." Click Play.. Answer the questions that follow. 1. What is unusual about the subject matter of this poem? Considering that some people are embarrassed to mention their hips, what attitudes does the speaker express here? W adjectives might describe the speaker? 2. How do the words "enslaved," "want to go," "want to do," "mighty," and "spell" define the poem's ideas about the relationship between mentality and physicality? 3. To what degree is this a comic poem? What about the subject and the diction make this poem humorous? Read Theodore Roethke, "My Papa's Waltz," and click to listen as a Grandfather talks about "My Papa's Waltz" Now, listen as Author Theodore Roethke reads "My Papa's Waltz."