How we cite our quotes: (Line)
Quote #1
This house has been far out at sea all night,
The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills,
Winds stampeding the fields under the window
Floundering black astride and blinding wet
Till day rose; (1-5)
The wind, while technically not alive, seems like a herd of living things—all trampling and stampeding through the landscape. There's some kind of vital presence even in inanimate nature. These forces swirl around the little lives of anonymous humans.
Quote #2
At noon I scaled along the house-side as far as
The coal-house door. Once I looked up—
Through the brunt wind that dented the balls of my eyes
The tent of the hills drummed and strained its guyrope, (9-12)
The power of the wind can dent your eyeballs—organs of perception—mirroring the way this very power transcends our ability to fully perceive it or understand it.