One such example is found in my favorite poem by Williams entitled "Danse Russe." If we take this poem at face value, we envision a grown man prancing about naked in front of a mirror while the rest of his family sleeps only pausing to marvel at his own body and genius. I think that to stop the interpretation and just take it for what it is would be a disappointing injustice. This poem in particular needs to be read repeatedly and with each reading, something new can be contrived from it.

The first time you read "Danse Russe," you picture the whole scenario and make a quick mental inventory of the events taking place.

If we just stopped there and didn't read the poem again, the first aspect that would be lost is the social commentary taking place that not only applied to Williams's era, but to ours as well. Even to this day, we still look at nudity as being taboo and the idea of enjoying our own nakedness as being perverse. Williams addresses this social attitude by describing his dance naked as "grotesquely." This description is almost made in a facetious manner as Williams goes on to list parts of his body that he admires dispelling the idea that he believes that his naked romp is anything but grotesque. In my opinion, by acknowledging and accepting this belief of Williams that the human body is not grotesque, but rather something to be admired, we are able to get past the shock of our initial reading and dive deeper into the poem.

Robinson Jeffers struck me as a man who was constantly being vexed by the world surrounding him; or at least that's how he perceived it. His apocalyptic attitude encompasses his work like a dense fog of impending doom. I have to admit that I usually try to avoid poetry that doesn't edify me in an uplifting or contemplative way. I found, however, between the lines of Jeffers poems, an unusual almost morbid beauty that can best be described as seeing a gorgeous woman in a casket at a funeral.

Jeffers actually goes so far as to say that all of us would be better off and quite frankly more useful dead. In the poem, "Vulture," he writes of a vulture that he sees while walking one day and expresses his disappointment that his body is not on this bird's menu for the day. He goes on to say that he wish he could be eaten in order to become part of the vulture and states "What a sublime end of one's body, what an enskyment; what a life after death. What I really think that he is trying to elude to is that we, as humans, are more beneficial to this animal dead. This was a very interesting piece by Jeffers' because we really get into his whole attitude towards what he thought that he himself was worth to the world and I think that because he thought himself to be so inferior, that he classified everyone under that same category.

In conclus

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