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The document provides summaries of 4 poems that explore themes of dance and movement:
1) "The Dance" by Pablo Neruda describes an old man dancing with a young girl, taking comfort in her youth and innocence.
2) "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke recalls being waltzed roughly by his drunken father as a boy.
3) "Danse Russe" by William Carlos Williams depicts a man dancing naked alone in his room, finding joy in his solitary movement.
4) "The Harlem Dancer" by Claude McKay is about a dancer performing for a crowd, her body and dancing admired but her true self detached from the experience.
The document provides summaries of 4 poems that explore themes of dance and movement:
1) "The Dance" by Pablo Neruda describes an old man dancing with a young girl, taking comfort in her youth and innocence.
2) "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke recalls being waltzed roughly by his drunken father as a boy.
3) "Danse Russe" by William Carlos Williams depicts a man dancing naked alone in his room, finding joy in his solitary movement.
4) "The Harlem Dancer" by Claude McKay is about a dancer performing for a crowd, her body and dancing admired but her true self detached from the experience.
The document provides summaries of 4 poems that explore themes of dance and movement:
1) "The Dance" by Pablo Neruda describes an old man dancing with a young girl, taking comfort in her youth and innocence.
2) "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke recalls being waltzed roughly by his drunken father as a boy.
3) "Danse Russe" by William Carlos Williams depicts a man dancing naked alone in his room, finding joy in his solitary movement.
4) "The Harlem Dancer" by Claude McKay is about a dancer performing for a crowd, her body and dancing admired but her true self detached from the experience.
Consider how the structure and prosody contribute to the meaning, tone, significance…
The Dance by Pablo Neruda
She is young. Have I the right
Even to name her? Child, It is not love I offer Your quick limbs, your eyes; Only the barren homage Of an old man whom time Crucifies. Take my hand A moment in the dance, Ignoring its sly pressure, The dry rut of age, And lead me under the boughs Of innocence. Let me smell My youth again in your hair.
My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke
The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy.
We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf; My mother's countenance Could not unfrown itself.
The hand that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle; At every step you missed My right ear scraped a buckle.
You beat time on my head
With a palm caked hard by dirt, Then waltzed me off to bed Still clinging to your shirt. Dance Poetry Consider how the structure and prosody contribute to the meaning, tone, significance… Danse Russe, William Carlos Williams
If when my wife is sleeping
and the baby and Kathleen
are sleeping
and the sun is a flame-white disc
in silken mists
above shining trees,—
if I in my north room
dance naked, grotesquely
before my mirror
waving my shirt round my head
and singing softly to myself:
"I am lonely, lonely,
I was born to be lonely,
I am best so!"
If I admire my arms, my face,
my shoulders, flanks, buttocks
against the yellow drawn shades,—
Who shall say I am not
the happy genius of my household?
Dance Poetry Consider how the structure and prosody contribute to the meaning, tone, significance…
“The Harlem Dancer” by Claude McKay
Applauding youths laughed with young prostitutes And watched her perfect, half-clothed body sway; Her voice was like the sound of blended flutes Blown by black players upon a picnic day. She sang and danced on gracefully and calm, The light gauze hanging loose about her form; To me she seemed a proudly-swaying palm Grown lovelier for passing through a storm. Upon her swarthy neck black shiny curls Luxuriant fell; and tossing coins in praise, The wine-flushed, bold-eyed boys, and even the girls, Devoured her shape with eager, passionate gaze; But looking at her falsely-smiling face, I knew her self was not in that strange place.