1 Let's return to the poem itself. This is the setting of the whole poem, an introduction. The interlocutors of the guitarist want to see familiar faces of reality. Perhaps for them there is only one true version of reality which gives them comfort in the ever changing world. However, the guitarist's reply represents clearly the credo of the anti-realist camp.
Familiar reality can come in myriad shapes and faces.
The guitarist appears to be so confident of his power of tune making that he believes reality itself follows the lead of his tunes. The remaining two stanzas represent the focal point of the whole stanza. Of things exactly as they are. This is clearly the most important line of the canto. If indeed something can be beyond us as well as be us, then the whole philosophical problem of representation and reality would be very satisfactorily solved.