Hass says the problem of describing trees is that they cant be described. He appears to be doing a good job at first but on the third stanza he goes into what seems to be a "you had to be there moment." Then he just gives up trying to describe it, so since his argument is that he cant describe trees; he succeeds. He goes from "the aspen glitters in the wind" in the first line to "the aspen doing something in the wind" in the last line. He could have tried to continue to describe it but he just stopped trying in the middle. His description is worthless because he is limited in his words. Only Hass knows exactly what hes seeing, are the trees dancing ball room style or hip hop? Or are they just swaying in the wind like two awkward teenagers at a middle school dance?
After Hass shifts from his descriptive language to saying "No." the tree speaks to him. His words may not speak to us but the tree is talking to him. It is interesting that he chooses to use the word "desenchant" in the preceding line because according to Webster it means to free from illusion. But the next line creates an illusion, an illusion of a tree speaking to the writer.
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