Fragment: A Wanderer
He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.
Shelley’s four-line fragment pictures a lonely mind drifting without anchor. The wanderer isn’t a physical traveler but a presence compared to “a day-appearing dream,” something fleeting and insubstantial that haunts waking life.
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