Night and day are “telescoped” for Hugh by the monotony of crawling either awake or in dreams and never getting anywhere.
17. Dream-dawn, dream-noon, dream-night! And still obsessed
Why the repetition?
18. By that one dream more clamorous than the rest,
What is the one dream? Why is it a dream?
Define: gully, turbid, relict.
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3. Yet had the pleasant lie befriended him,
4. And now the brutal fact had come to stare.
What was the “pleasant lie”? The brutal fact?