Note that the last line of the first division of the poem rhymes with
the first line of the second division. Have you noticed that many times
the rhyming lines close one paragraph and open the next? The effect of
this device is to keep the mind of the reader in strain for what is to
follow.
What is a couplet? Is the poem written in couplets? How is the cæsura
handled in this poem? Compare with Pope’s method in “Essay on Man.”
=3.= But some globose immensity of blue
Note epithets in this line. How comprehensive!
=7.= So one late plunged into the lethal sleep, etc.
The sensation of the awakening is likened to the possible
experience of one in death. The author is much interested in
such matters.
Define “lethal.” What literary associations with this word?
=12.= The quiet steep-arched splendor of the day.
At what time of day did Hugh awake?