Which line in the poem london, 1802 by william wordsworth uses metonymy to refer to art and literature?

London includes a quote about john thornton as he is observing hal attempt to motivate the exhausted dogs "it was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly". if the word "idle" is defined as "of no real worth, importance, or significance", what does this statement mean with regard to hal? who is the fool? what is hal's folly? why would john thornton think it of no real worth or useless to intervene?

Which two sentences in this excerpt from the time machine by h. g. wells suggest that the morlocks possesses a degree of intelligence comparable to that of humans

What logical prediction can be made from this passage?