=1.= That daubs the murk but cannot fathom it,
Hugh’s suspicions are vague as yet.
=6.= The smoky glow flared wildly,
What “smoky glow”?
=10.= A gloom-devouring ecstasy of flame,
=11.= A dazing conflagration of belief!
Suspicion passes to certainty. Explain the whole figure from the
beginning.
=12.= Plunged deeper than the seats of hate and grief, etc.
Does nature sometimes seem to mock our moods? The older
literatures seem unconscious of this psychology. Note Bryant’s
“Death of the Flowers.”
Define: daub, grotesque, ecstasy, apathetic, complacence,
connivance.