The narrator makes it plain ("for instance") that he is rendering conversations and not lulling the reader unaware directly into live discourse.
The largely syllabic declamation, the slow-moving harmonic rhythm and the lulling bass line project a maternal calm even as they evoke the 'sleep of death'.
That lulling action is in itself a political act, and yet one that we are encouraged not to recognize as such.
Hughes's (often nine-part) choral writing is by turns blistering and soothing, just as the instrumental underlay is both lulling and frenetic.
This phenomenon of lulling operates at a more sophisticated level as well.
You are lulling the public opinion of the country into false security by producing ships, which may after all be valueless when launched.
I have my own scruples, like many others, about how far you can ultimately feather-bed poets and artists without lulling their genius into fashion-ability.
Again, with regard to the people of this country, there is nothing to be achieved by lulling them into a fool's paradise.
