The moon by P.B Shelley makes the readers look at the moon with the eyes of a poet. This detailed summary of The Moon will help the readers realize how special significance and a deeper meaning can be awarded to simple objects of nature if only we let our imaginations soar high. The moon in the first stanza of the poem is a shriveled and pale one that has been compared by the poet to a senile, sickly and dying woman. All colors of youth and life are washed off the face of this dying woman, making her look pale and she is lean owing to some chronic disease that she might have been suffering from. This comparison is an indication towards condition of the moon when it approaches the end of the lunar cycle when it is short of brightness and luminosity. The cloud is shrouded by a thin film of clouds which the poet has very meticulously compared to the “gauzy veil” that guards the face of the woman. Just like the dying lady walks feebly out of her bedroom, the moon climbs up in the dark eastern sky which is referred to as murky as the sun has set in it, taking with it all the brightness and feelings of hope and leaving behind gloom and darkness. The unsteady movements of the moon in the night sky have been compared to the random wanderings of the dying lady that are induced by her weak brain. Old age has made her lose her power to remember and has attacked her insanity because of which she wanders around in a confused distracted manner. The dying lady in her gaudy clothes looks shapeless and her disease stricken face is devoid of color and hence as pale. Hence both the moon and the old lady are white shapeless masses.