 Re: no weeds to mock
This looks to me like an interesting, but complex metaphor. It would be nice to have the entire passage, but this is my interpretation.
When someone plants a garden but raises only weeds, those weeds can be said to be mocking (ridiculing) the gardner's efforts [endeavor]. (This type of metaphor is called anthropomorphism.) The landscape in this passage is so barren it doesn't even have the "mocking" weeds. |