Fairer Through Fading as the Day
poem 938
Fairer Through Fading as the Day - meaning Summary
Beauty in Gradual Disappearance
Dickinson presents sunset as a paradox: the day becomes "fairer through fading" as light withdraws into darkness. The poem likens the sun’s decline to a dying friend whose lingering glow both teases and intensifies the oncoming night. It emphasizes transience and the bittersweet beauty of decline, showing how diminishing light can heighten perception even as loss and inevitability close in.
Read Complete AnalysesFairer through Fading as the Day Into the Darkness dips away Half Her Complexion of the Sun Hindering Haunting Perishing Rall ies Her Glow, like a dying Friend Teasing with glittering Amend Only to aggravate the Dark Through an expiring perfect look
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