The Fairest, Brightest, Hues of Ether Fade
The Fairest, Brightest, Hues of Ether Fade - meaning Summary
Music Elevates Nature's Vision
Wordsworth describes a fleeting musical vision that elevates the speaker above ordinary perception. A friend’s flute summons memories of ecstatic, almost mystical landscapes that then dissolve into evening mist. Though the visionary images vanish, the experience leaves the speaker spiritually lifted and attached to the mountain summit. The poem links music, imagination, and nature to suggest how transient art can produce durable inner elevation and consolation.
Read Complete AnalysesThe fairest, brightest, hues of ether fade; The sweetest notes must terminate and die; O Friend! thy flute has breathed a harmony Softly resounded through this rocky glade; Such strains of rapture as the Genius played In his still haunt on Bagdad's summit high; He who stood visible to Mirza's eye, Never before to human sight betrayed. Lo, in the vale, the mists of evening spread! The visionary Arches are not there, Nor the green Islands, nor the shining Seas: Yet sacred is to me this Mountain's head, Whence I have risen, uplifted, on the breeze Of harmony, above all earthly care.
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