=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”?
What is Hugh’s mood when he feels that the foe is “naught but
yielding air”?
=13.= A vacancy to fill with his intent!
What is the grammatical construction of “to fill”?
=15.= Three-footed; and the vision goaded him.
What vision “goaded him”?
=24.= Served but to brew more venom for his hate,
Why is hate spoken of as venomous? What has modern Physiology to
say of this?
=25.= And nerved him to avail the most with least.
What is meant by “avail the most with least”?