Answer: Present, the s on the end makes it a current action taking place just as if saying Shaking.
Explanation:
It represents Kafka's lifelong feelings of inadequacy.
Description The noun that designates an object perceptible by the senses, as opposed to the abstract nouns, which designate objects only perceptible by thought, is called a concrete noun, or concrete name. Thus, hand, cloud, cat, stone and iron are nouns concrete