Baffled for Just a Day or Two

Baffled for Just a Day or Two - meaning Summary

Sudden Visitor, World Transformed

The poem records a brief, startling encounter in a garden. The speaker is initially "baffled" and "embarrassed," not frightened, when an unexpected maid appears. Her simple gestures — beckoning and nodding — seem to animate the natural world, making the woods and everything around her begin. The experience leaves the speaker feeling disoriented and transported to a place they do not recognize. In plain terms, the poem describes how a single, uncanny presence can suddenly alter perception and make ordinary surroundings feel foreign and charged with meaning.