1.
After reading this poem, in your point of view, what does the speaker
want to say?
2. Analyze the structure of "The Dance," and discuss its relation to
the meaning of the poem.
3. What is the meaning of the first and the last lines within "The
Dance"?
4. Please appreaciate Pieter Brueguel's "The Wedding Dance in the Open
Air" or The Peasant Dance" and then interpret William's "The Dance" in
the ekphrastic reading.
5. After seeing "The Peasant Dance," could you retell the story of this
painting in "The Dance"?
6. Take a close of these parts of "The Peasant Dance." Discuss the
action happened in "The Dance."