Please help me evaluate these lines from An Absolutley Ordinary Raindow (1 Viewer)

[Brock1]

If anyone can tell me the literary techniques used in these lines and what the lines mean, I would be grateful

"and many weep for sheer acceptance, and more refuse to weep for fear of all acceptance"

"Ridiculous, says a man near me, and covers his mouth with his hands, as if it uttered vomit—"

Link to full poem: http://www.lesmurray.org/pm_aor.htm

Thanks eternally!