The Dance Analysis

Author: poem of William Carlos Williams Type: poem Views: 6

In Breughel's great picture, The Kermess,
the dancers go round, they go round and
around, the squeal and the blare and the
tweedle of bagpipes, a bugle and fiddles
tipping their bellies, (round as the thick-
sided glasses whose wash they impound)
their hips and their bellies off balance
to turn them. Kicking and rolling about
the Fair Grounds, swinging their butts, those
shanks must be sound to bear up under such
rollicking measures, prance as they dance
in Breughel's great picture, The Kermess

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This poem is actual ekphrastic. It describes an existing painting. The poem on itself resembles a painting: it starts and ends with the same line 'In Brueghel's great picture, The Kermess', which creates a kind of frame. The poet tries to express the dance by repetition of 'round' and the lack of punctuation. The dancers dance uninterrupted.

| Posted on 2009-01-28 | by a guest

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