To the Bright East She Flies,
To the Bright East She Flies, - meaning Summary
Return and Uncertain Home
The poem sketches a swift, almost angelic departure toward a promised East and a home granted by "brothers of Paradise," suggesting a return without visible change. The second stanza shifts inward: identity is both made and remembered, but those self-conceptions feel dreamlike. That dreamlike dissolving makes everyday life seem transient and dislocated, so existence appears both fashioned and homeless—belonging only in a spiritual or imagined home.
Read Complete AnalysesTo the bright east she flies, Brothers of Paradise Remit her home, Without a change of wings, Or Love’s convenient things, Enticed to come. Fashioning what she is, Fathoming what she was, We deem we dream – And that dissolves the days Through which existence strays Homeless at home.
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