Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods.

In these lines Wordsworth turns an ordinary seasonal phenomenon—the wind moving through late-year woods—into a kind of natural music. The adjective “wild” suggests both untamed energy and emotional intensity, while “faded woods” evokes autumn’s decline and the approach of winter. The contrast implies that even as the landscape loses color and vitality, it gains a different beauty: a stark, stirring soundscape. The couplet exemplifies Wordsworth’s Romantic habit of finding aesthetic and spiritual significance in commonplace nature, and of using sensory detail (here, sound) to register time, transience, and the mind’s responsiveness to the natural world.