The city remains the same, by just being covered in fog as people go on with their days. The city may seem unreal because you can't distinguish the seasons due to the heavy fog.

This line is implying that we choose to forget the power of nature, and how it can destroy us in an instant. Even when nature tries to warn us itself.

The repetition of "what" and "think" shows us the frustration of wanting something and at the same time questioning whether we even what that.

“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.” ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Here we see the theme of death again, but this time describing how mountains are dead without water just like humans would be.

Death seems to have surprised man people and made them question the reality of its coming.

Does this mean the arrangement went wrong and needs the opposite?

Is the speaker suppose to feel comfortable and at home?

Is there a reason why there are three Es in both eleven and eighteen?

the word power is describing knowledge and the evils of truths it brings to ones' self. People that don't have knowledge show they are pessimistic and believe people are evil as they grow smarter.

The jug represent the sorrow that man feels and by bringing it up all the time in a public place to others is him showing other just how sad he is. And the word jug is repeated.

He is speaking of old ties from the past that has connected ancestry to the present and giving people a sense of identity through that.

We are slowing killing the earth because we are all growing and using limited resources.

Turning ones' back to someone who had ones been there for them. Self inflicted suffering.

The repetition of this is showing us just how hungry for power one is.

Doesn't want to lose the history and hardships of the dead to be lost or a waste.

showing that there is a double vision, a veil.