response to "The Silken Tent"

Is it to lame to wonder who is being referred to in the first line?  is the writer describing "she" or the silken tent?  upon reading aloud it is imagined that "she" is the described.  

the flow of this poem is so sultry, as waves on the beach at sunset.  people all around stop to watch in silence.  the author is definately captivating his audience.  

reading aloud brings each reader, each imagination, a different experience.  the words can be descriptive yet vague and sensible and senseless.  as reading, deeper and deeper falling in the words and the rhyme.  swaying back and forth emotionally, as though to feel the same way as the writer must have felt at that tie in that moment. 

line 6 describes the central cedar pole.  this can be thought of as the "rock" or "anchor" that holds the tent in its place or the soft touch and beautiful aroma that is encompassed by the surrounding tent, or woman.  

to think deeper, and to read aloud again.  this just might bring a heightened sense of understanding in such readings.