Question

Read the excerpt from "Rhapsody on a Windy Night." Twelve o'clock. Along the reaches of the street Held in a lunar synthesis, Whispering 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. What does this excerpt from the poem describe?

Answer 1

The correct answer to this question is "Lunar eclipse" i remember having this question as well.

Answer 2

It describes how the narrator views the street he walks in, bathed by the moonlight, and how it somehow makes everything he sees and his memories vague and indistinct. An example of that is how a streetlamp can emit "sound" as well as light. It is also implied that somehow that time of night, being "midnight" has the power to unconsciously "shake" the narrators thoughts and memories without him knowing or being aware of it, like a madman would not be aware that he is shaking a dead flower.