What does the line 'moved slowly through my mind/ By day, and were a trouble to my dreams' imply about memory?

What does the line 'moved slowly through my mind/ By day, and were a trouble to my dreams' imply about memory?

• A. The event is forgotten quickly
• B. The event haunts him during the day and at night
• C. The event becomes comic
• D. The event is only a distant memory

Answer: (B)

Memory here is shown as a persistent, intrusive presence that stays with the speaker through both waking and sleeping hours. “Moved slowly through my mind” suggests it lingers and returns gradually rather than fading away. “By day” means it intrudes on daytime thoughts, while “a trouble to my dreams” shows it also disrupts sleep, haunting his dreams. Together, these images paint memory as an ongoing, unsettling force, not something easily forgotten, comic, or merely distant.

Memory here is shown as a persistent, intrusive presence that stays with the speaker through both waking and sleeping hours. “Moved slowly through my mind” suggests it lingers and returns gradually rather than fading away. “By day” means it intrudes on daytime thoughts, while “a trouble to my dreams” shows it also disrupts sleep, haunting his dreams. Together, these images paint memory as an ongoing, unsettling force, not something easily forgotten, comic, or merely distant.