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.