Note that no two of Hugh’s dreams are alike. In this dream his revenge is futile. Is that the nature of revenge, to defeat itself?
How many lines are taken to tell this dream? How much in little space!
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1. Gazing far, etc.
Another remarkable description of the sky and prairie and their effect upon Hugh.
Make a list of epithets descriptive of both sky and prairie as you find them on pages [26]–[27]–[28]–[29]–[30]–[32]–[34]–[36]–[39]. Epithets may be adjectives or verbs or nouns. Such are “globose immensity,” “smoky steep,” “serene antagonist,” “negativity of might.”
9. Seemed that vast negativity of might; etc.
In what sense is the might of distance negative?
What was the “frustrate vision of the night”?
What does the poet mean by saying it came “moonwise”?