Each stanza has images that recall completely different images. In the first stanza, the image created by the adjectives is that of an old, lonely woman sitting by the fire. She is “full of sleep […] nodding by the fire,” suggesting that she is at the end of her life and on the verge of falling into an eternal sleep and dying (1-2). The first image is already quite alarming because it begins at the end of the subject's life. This in return creates a feeling of discomfort within the subject. As he picks up the book and reads slowly, he begins to remember "how many have loved [his] moments of joyful grace", this image contrasts sharply with the image of death in the first stanza. At the beginning of the second verse his uncomfortable feelings created by the first verse are put to rest. However, there is a change in the second verse. The verse begins with warm and pleasant images on the subject of his youth. But since the poet-speaker states that only “one man loved the pilgrim soul in [her],” all the suitors created by the previous image dissipate. And now, there is only one man who stands before her and who loves her and her “changing face” (8). Although there has been a man whose love has remained pure for her throughout time, the image in the third stanza depicts her alone and old, “bent beside the light bars” (9). The light bars could represent the