Substantial attention is given to Dionysus’s clothes: “tattered and torn, rags really, / soiled with the soot and grime of the streets” (Lines 4-5). This implies that the outer façade is the first thing the speaker sees, and which frames the way the speaker (and the reader) perceive him. His clothes can also be interpreted as a tangible tether to the human world, preventing the god from returning home.