A fine lyric. This is one of many memory pictures of Hugh’s travels. Nothing in the poem tells directly of Hugh’s past.
This silence suggests tragedy dimly illumined by the memory pictures. Is Hugh an imaginative man? Enumerate the evening sounds. Note the steps marking the transition from evening to night. How many days has Hugh crawled? Hugh is known to have been a Pennsylvanian of Scotch descent.
Define “peripheries.”
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1. Blank as the face of fate. In listless mood etc.
Fate is associated with the inevitable and unrevealed. “In listless mood” etc.—the end of a day of feverish dreams finds Hugh weakened and caring less to live.
3. And met the night. The new moon, low and far, etc.
Note the phase of the moon.
7. The kiote voiced the universal lack.
Hunger.