Poem question

The quote is, "Up the airy mountain/Down the rushing glen/You never can go hunting/For fear of little men," and I've been trying to make sense of it, too. Her reciting these lines has the effect of an oracle speaking in code as in a dream, by which I would take her to be referring to internal, self-defeating traits (in an institution collapsing from the inside), but can't take it any farther than that. The fact that the poet's name is only one letter removed from the speaker's must be saying something, too, but what? I'd hate to think it was merely a case of "Mrs. Callingham" being a tribute to an author the scriptwriter admired and wanted to pay tribute to, but even at that I'd assume some subliminal intention. A head-scratcher, to be sure.

I think she was warning her in her own way not to investigate any further....she knows if masters finds out that ms. beal discoveres what is really going on, masters will kill her.

She is telling her via the poem 'never go a'hunting', i.e., 'don't look too carefully'; the wounded doctor is lying down, he is no longer in charge, helpless, i.e. a 'little man'. the poem is also a warning, but ms. beal simply believes it is raving.





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I thought this thread was going to be about the Judge quoting Tennyson's translation of the Old English poem Battle of Brunanburh.

Many a carcase they left to be carrion,
Many a livid one, many a sallow-skin--
Left for the white-tail'd eagle to tear it, and
Left for the horny-nibb'd raven to rend it, and
Gave to the garbaging war-hawk to gorge it, and
That gray beast, the wolf of the weald.