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The central figure of this poem has uses an "imperious gesture" to fling down one of the central images which is then stamped on by "small firm feet". The analogy of how a "lighted match…sends out brilliant flickering tongues to every side" is used to describe the "hasty, heated rhythms" of a figure who "With a fierce glance…sets her hair alight". That figure has arms which "appear like serpents striking" and "fans her dress into passionate flames". Describing the title character performing the flamenco, FTP, name this poem by Rainer Maria Rilke.
The central figure of this poem has uses an "imperious gesture" to fling down one of the central images which is then stamped on by "small firm feet".
{Spanish Dancer} or {Spanische Tanzerin}