Read the excerpt from "Rhapsody on a Windy Night."Twelve o'clock. Along the reaches of the street Held in a lunar synthesis, Whi
spering lunar incantations Dissolve the floors of memory And all its clear relations, Its divisions and precisions, Every street lamp that I pass Beats like a fatalistic drum, And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium. Which phrase from the excerpt best indicates that the narrator is lost in thought?Along the reaches of the streetHeld in a lunar synthesisMidnight shakes the memoryEvery street lamp that I passMark this and return
In these lines, the author describes a walk that he had in which he thinks about many different memories. The walk is at midnight, and we know that the narrator feels inspired by the night and the streets in the moonlight. However, the phrase that best demonstrates how the author is lost in thought is "midnight shakes the memory." This expresses how his memories are more vivid as he takes this midnight walk.
