Describing the Tree (1/12)

The argument that Hass creates within this poem is that poetry often uses language, such as personification, which may make it seem as though what is being described in the poem can do many things. However, when Hass says "no" and states that there are limits to what the tree can do, he is explaining that even though poetry has the ability to describe things in a variety of ways that, say for example scientists would not, there are still description sand actions that would indeed not describe the tree no matter how poetically beautiful the poem's descriptions have become. When we read poetry much like this poem, we find ourselves believing that the tree is dancing. Words, in the end, may never be able to describe exactly what a certain tree looks like or resembles.

I think that when Hass writes in his poem "dance with me, dancer," it is the tree is is supposedly speaking this. Hass has already explained that the tree is dancing and it is now as if the tree invites the observer to join the dance. It is as if he is now accepted by the tree having experienced and acknowledged nature in all its movements for what it really is in all of its beauty.